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Green Star to Demonstrate Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Earlier this month, Green Star Products along with its International Consortium partner Global Green Cars had publicly tested its full electric vehicle version at tracks in Utah and Kentucky. Global Green Cars is a U.S. Presently there are no plug-in electric hybrid vehicles offered by any major car company in the U.S.

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Volkswagen’s first two production battery-electric vehicles debut at Frankfurt

Green Car Congress

is attributable to the very good cD value for a car of this size of 0.308 (4% lower than its cousin the take up!); Electric cars are essentially equipped with two brake systems independent of each other: a conventional, mechanical, hydraulically operated brake system and the e-motor acting as a motor brake when when recovering energy.