Green Car Congress
MARCH 16, 2021
From 2005–2020 average fuel economy rose by 29%. All vehicle types are at or near record low CO 2 emissions; however, market shifts away from cars and towards sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and pickups have offset some of the fleetwide benefits.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 23, 2011
However, total transportation energy demand in California could be reduced 30% relative to 2005 levels in 2050 through improving overall vehicle efficiency (which includes the use of advanced electric-drivetrains such as plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). Click to enlarge. Other main findings.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 21, 2009
January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). A: I’m much more hopeful today than I was in 2005, simply because the car companies have painted themselves into a corner. The problem is that car companies put everything in gasoline, the SUV, the truck. And he was right.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
JANUARY 28, 2009
Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. Deffeyes, 2005 "The Coming Oil Crisis", by Colin Campbell "Crossing the Rubicon", by Michael C.
Spirit of DC - PHEV3A
NOVEMBER 27, 2009
He has driven his 2005 Prius, dubbed “Spirit of DC,” to 48 state capitals and five Canadian provinces, and now he’s launching a “Plug-in Arizona Tour,” he said.Spirit is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). “We Army in Washington, D.C., and moved to Bisbee, he said. Now he’s on a new mission to convert America to plug-in cars.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Contact info: John Joyce. Full-size photo. Contact mike@. Green Gears, Inc.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Furia explained, "The SUVs that we just completed that were outfitted with the XHT drive train could have been any SUV made by anyone.
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