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BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The Tesla Roadster represents the evolution of AC Propulsion’s 12 year old tzero which in 2002 pioneered the use of lithium-ion batteries (6,800 cells) demonstrating 0-60mph acceleration times in the 3.6 The BMW Group aims to start series production of all-electric vehicles over the medium term as part of its Number ONE strategy.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

We’re now in the crisis CalCars knew, when we began in 2002, would some day arrive. (We And the first plug-in cars mass-produced in the USA in a century will go on sale this fall. We won’t need new power plants, since we have enough off-peak electricity to recharge as many retrofits as we can build. No one can make that promise.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Midway Group , PHEV Prius by Hybrids Plus , Oct 2007, (Los Angeles CA). Contact Toronto Atmospheric Fund Office for Resource Efficiency Escape by Hybrids Plus , Jan 16, 2008, (USA). Austin Energy by Hymotion, March 2007 Same as above (2 vehicles), contact mark.kapner@austinenergy.com. Contact Nikki AT aminorjourney DOT COM, [link].

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