2001 Gasoline-Electric IDEA Solar 
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. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 3, 2012
He or she owns a home, which is perhaps solar-powered. and I think this will give us a good idea of overall consumer acceptance of EVs. Twenty-two months after the project announcement, Toyota and Tesla engineers revealed the RAV4 EV at Electric Vehicle Symposium 26 in May 2012. Compared with the gasoline-powered RAV4, at 0.35
Plug in America
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Winter solstice has swept in , and me and my electric vehicle (EV) are taking another trip around the sun—on sunshine! . My ex and I got solar at home on his birthday in 2002, then our first EV, the RAV4, a couple months later, on the winter solstice. And with the solar panels, I was driving on sunshine. . Driving on sunshine!
Creative Greenius
JULY 19, 2009
We’ve since ratcheted down the electric use here at my home and in my office and studio watt by watt until we hit our new all time low just last month as we used just 357 kWh which cost us $46.24. Our daily use of electricity during this two year period has gone from 22.55 And two years ago we used 654 kWh which cost us $117.89.
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