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Electric Car Watch #9: Where is the Strom-R3 electric car?

Plug In India

Strom should take money from investors who are not from the auto industry. This will lead to more conversions. We have startups like Arcimoto and Aptera who will soon start manufacturing and selling reverse trikes that resemble the Strom R3. Even the redoubtable Mr Chetan Maini couldn't save his baby.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. Then they are driving by electric car conversions every day and not seeing them.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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.) That said, the interest in conversions continues to validate hybrid technology as a core technology thats here to stay.

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