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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Lead the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 for developing a vehicle that could navigate and drive through a desert course without human intervention. For reference, the fully loaded PRT is approximately 80% the weight of 2009 VW Rabbit. Responsible for designing the transportation system for the Citadel of Masdar.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But when people talk about payback, they refer only to the net dollars to the driver. For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. Please see our Plug-In Hybrids page Wheres the payback?

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