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The influencer

Electric Auto Association

Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I This doubled the range of the car and his problem was solved.

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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

Green Car Congress

In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., First launched in 2006, this 4-wheel electric cart will also be used as a testing vehicle. VRLA (lead-acid), Panasonic. Solar-powered charging station for the test vehicles. Click to enlarge. – 2.0L EV range.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our goal is to enable owners to enlist a local electrician/engineer to convert their cars, initially with lead-acid batteries, for under $6,000 and less than two person-weeks of time. (We CalCars converted Priuses into a PRIUS+ at the 2006 and 2007 Maker Faire s. In 2006, CalCars worked on a project with Electro Energy, Inc.

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New “convection battery” could significantly increase performance of existing as well as new, improved battery chemistries

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the University of Missouri’s Department of Chemical Engineering (MU) have developed and demonstrated a new type of battery, referred to as the “convection battery” or “convection cell”. Professor Suppes was the recipient of the 2006 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. Schematic of the convection cell.

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