2001 California Convert Corporation 
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2009
has added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting standard FedEx delivery trucks to hybrid-electric systems. The converted hybrids were developed with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Eaton Corporation, which provided the hybrid-electric systems ( earlier post ). FedEx Corp.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.
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MAY 11, 2009
a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. Rentech has entered into a licensing agreement with SilvaGas Corporation for biomass gasification technology for the Rialto facility. Click to enlarge.
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OCTOBER 12, 2010
Norway’s Nordic Power Systems (NPS) and California-based SAFCell Inc., established to market and commercialize the solid acid fuel cell (SAFC) technology developed and patented at the California Institute of Technology, is delivering the stack. The reformer converts hydrocarbons into hydrogen, CO 2 and heat. SAFCell Inc.,
Green Cars News
JULY 22, 2009
The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.
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OCTOBER 8, 2022
1962, Stanford University, California, all in electrical engineering First job Planting cabbages First electronics job Technician, General Railway Signal Co., Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels. Date of birth Oct. MS, 1959, Ph.D.,
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