The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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VUE Saturn 2007 Green 93

Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2023

After graduating in economics, he began his career as a financial analyst at WestLB’s investment banking subsidiary in 2002, where he became vice president of corporate finance in 2005. In 2007, von Hirschheydt joined Continental as a project manager in the Mergers and Acquisitions department.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2009

The US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has published a report summarizing interviews with participants in the hydrogen-powered buses trials underway in more than 20 cities around the world from 2002 to 2007. A Report on Worldwide Hydrogen Bus Demonstrations, 2002-2007 (FTA Report No. Resources.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Hydrogen 2002 Fuel 170

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Full , Mild , Weak , Series, Parallel, Series-Parallel, The Honda configuration such as that in the Insight is a Parallel system, in that the ICE and Motor contribute motive power in parallel. Formed in 2002, our efforts for "100+MPG Hybrids" took off when we built PRIUS+ , the worlds first plug-in Prius).

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PHEV Prius Gasoline-Electric Plug-in 49

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. At the moment, only 2004-2007 Priuses , and to a limited extent, the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrids.

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PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I had surmised this in my 2002 car design thesis [link] even before anyone was talking about plug in series hybrids. Yes GM will lose $ on the Volt, just like the first Insights or Priuss, but unlike Toyota or Honda, they just cant afford to wait for it to catch on and become profitable. Its a damn shame.

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