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Weighing and Cleaning the Car

Open Source Civic EV Kit

One of the baseline items my colleague highly suggested getting was a curb weight value before and after the conversion. It was a bit intimidating waiting in line with several semi-trucks, sort of like landing on the main runway of Portland International Airport with an ultralight airplane.

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RMI Launches Project Get Ready to Help Communities Prepare for Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

In addition to launching the project website, RMI provided a list of actions that communities must take “ to be truly ready for the plug-in transition. “ Community members in Portland, Oregon; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Raleigh, North Carolina soon expanding to the Triangle region have already agreed to work with RMI’s Project Get Ready.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). At the bottom of this page, weve begun a list of PHEV Schoolbuses.

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