Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. They are innovators.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And we all won’t be driving a Prius either – I’ll have my electric pickup truck in a few years too. Lithium, nickel metal hydrides and even advanced lead acid products are now capable of great energy storage and have strong recycle lives. Battery technologies are advancing rapidly.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Duh, heres our $40K volt, buy it please? If you just set aside the fantasy goal of an electric car with the same or better performance than an ICE powered car then we could build utilitarian short range EVs now, and could have been doing this coninually since 1900 with lead-acid batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Car buyers were less enthusiastic.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. at least, the recycling infrastructure for the well-established lead-acid batteries is robust. In the U.S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. The car is expected to cost around $40,000.

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