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Cheap Electric Car Conversion Possible?

Electric Cars are for Girls

What would it take to convert a Saturn SC2 to electric? The information on web sites is all over the place. Some want $5,000.00 for a kit while another

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What are you waiting for?

DIY Electric Car

OK I posted a excited start but so far have not even touched the car? No real excuse except I have two other cars to fix at the moment. So I guess I now have a cheap DC to DC convertor. Hope to finish the Volvo this weekend and then start de-ICE ing the Saturn. Had to replace the lower control arm on my Volvo V70xc.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

They could: Offer an electric version of an existing vehicle Give an electric model a new or additional identity Introduce a new electric model Create a new electric sub-brand Start a new electric car company. However, they make attractive second cars and commuter modules, especially when they’re used. A new old brand.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

The brand died in 2009 as GM declared bankruptcy, restructured with US government backing, and jettisoned not only Hummer but also Pontiac, Saab and Saturn. Before Tesla, they were seen as nerdy golf carts, far from usable as “real cars.” In short, the GMC Hummer EV is meant to make electric cars badass in the public eye.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

He yanked big engines out of American cars and replaced them with electric motors that worked in tandem with much smaller gasoline engines. He called his new configuration the "plug-in hybrid" because it allowed homeowners to recharge the car's batteries by plugging into an electrical outlet. Hybrid automobiles work with two engines.