Green Car Reports
JULY 30, 2019
The 2020 Honda Insight hybrid gets a slight price increase. And we step back and ask if EV conversions matter today. Tesla's next big software release will bring significant changes to Autopilot. A Canadian company already creates an electric F-150. All this and more on Green Car Reports.
Electric Cars are for Girls
MARCH 17, 2011
Well, "Plasma Boy" John Wayland is working on just that, an all-electric Honda Insight conversion, 'cause he's gotta be different, and the Prius has been done, and done, and done.and so when it's finished, he's planning a freeway trip-slash-parade from Portland to Seattle and back in his Insight conversion, called the Silver Streak, flanked by a squadron (..)
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 28, 2010
The Honda Insight, conversely, has no forced features, delivers more than 40 miles per gallon, and emits relatively little global warming pollution. With a sticker price of less than $20,000, the Insight is one of the most affordable hybrids available. The luxury Lexus LS 600h L hybrid is the worst offender.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 6, 2013
The ALABC tested Furukawa’s UltraBattery modules in 2010 in a Honda Insight demonstrator and also reached the 100,000-mile mark, but the results were achieved on a test track in Millbrook, UK. Following the simulation tests, Ecotality engineered the actual conversion of the vehicle and put it into daily route duty in a courier fleet.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
JUNE 23, 2007
Gary has a Honda Insight and Toyota Prius and an electric Chevy S10. His current project is to upgrade the batteries in his all-electric Insight to lithium-ion cells. This morning I drove out to his place and found a virtual Disneyland of EV stuff. Here's Gary in front of his garage.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
JULY 14, 2007
He is standing in front of an all-electric Honda Insight which contains his prototype Tri-Zilla AC controller. Here's Otmar's DC powered 914, controlled by his Zilla1K controller. Here is Otmar Ebenhoech, designer of the popular Zilla DC controllers.
Spirit of DC - PHEV3A
MARCH 7, 2009
Jack lives in Murray, UT and wants to get into the EV conversion business, maybe even PHEV conversion business! He was seeing John for comparative EV points of view, since John has 2 x Sparrows, one Fiero Destiny with Li-ion battery pack (only 34 were supposedly produced last century by Solar Electric Engineering), a Honda Insight.
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