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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. This criteria only left the Prius in play.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Here I took advantage of already owning an electric lawnmower, figuring that the 40-volt, 4-ampere-hour battery I had for it would serve well. rarely use on a road bike) applies a small amount of regenerative braking before the pads make contact–just as in my wife's Prius. Squeezing the rear brake (which I'd normally.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Here I took advantage of already owning an electric lawnmower, figuring that the 40-volt, 4-ampere-hour battery I had for it would serve well. rarely use on a road bike) applies a small amount of regenerative braking before the pads make contact–just as in my wife's Prius. Squeezing the rear brake (which I'd normally.

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

Clean Fleet Report

Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade. The Toyota Prius, a battery-gasoline hybrid, is a very famous and recognizable example of this approach. There is no all-electric or gas-only Prius—that’s not its identity.

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CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Green Car Congress

The researchers used five different scenarios to investigate how different factors will affect emissions and the costs of charging: Base Case: In this scenario, they assumed an electric vehicle fleet based on the PHEV35 model in GREET10 (similar to the Chevy Volt) and a fleet of power plants representing the PJM system in 2010.

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Green Autos in the Times: Hybrid Hype, Hydrogen Hooey and Electric Dreams

Plugs and Cars

The reader is just meant to be left with the impression that Big Auto is still trying but the dang technology just isn't good enough or safe enough or cheap enough to market. The Volt remains a dream, and a new generation Prius (read plug-in) just have to wait for the perfect Lithium battery. Just because they say so.

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The "Spirit of DC" -- Back in AZ and Team Building with Tucson Clean Cities, Bookmans, starting mid-January 2010.

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Note : Beside wanting to write the bestseller called "Plug'n America: With the "Spirit" and on the Cheap! availabe 110-volt outlets (see www.MilagroCohousing.org ). First of all, all such undertaking so far involved have taken re-situating from Bisbee to Tucson. in order to take into key team-building resources in Tucson.

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