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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

Clean air and clean water are on everyone’s minds right now,” Douglass said, explaining that city officials have been hard at work adapting alternative energy sources. The first year we were invited, we planned to show a few conversions, including a VW bus and a VW Bug,” Douglass explained. Everyone’s asking: How do we transition?

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The Great Desulfation Experiment

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Above is a picture of a heavily sulfated 8-volt golf-cart battery I acquired yesterday. when I got it and needed half a gallon of distilled water to fill it back up. I still have two other 8-volt batteries (top picture) that I cleaned up today that also needed about half a gallon of water to fill each.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt Report Says Cap-and-Trade Is a Must for Canada’s Economic Survival From Carbon Footprints to Water Footprints Are Old Tires Fuel or Solid Waste? Lead batts are around 98% recycled.

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