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Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8

Clean Fleet Report

Additional charging is through regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy into electricity when braking or coasting. It has announced it’s building of a vehicle and battery manufacturing plant in Raleigh, North Carolina. An exciting beginning with more to come VinFast has no intention of waiting that long.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. Drivers of converted cars have received high levels of cooperation from dealer service departments so far.

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Elon Musk wants Tesla Service to fix two-thirds of cars in the same day

Teslarati

According to Autoblog , of the top 5 most common car repairs – oxygen sensor replacement, inspection of loose fuel cap causing engine light, catalytic converter replacement, mass airflow sensor replacement, and spark plug replacement – none of them are even possible on an electric vehicle.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Honda Civic :Mike Chanceys conversion. Honda EV+ :Life with the new Honda EV. The2001 NESEA American Tour de Sol TheWinston Solar Challenge World Solar Challenge :solar cars across Australia {Returnto top of page} EV Manufacturersand Converters ACPropulsion Inc. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

About Alan: Alan drives a Tesla Model 3 and Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid. Academically, he earned a Masters in Environmental Science from Drexel University and an MBA with a focus on Sustainability from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. Grassroots selling and support is great!!

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

About Alan: Alan drives a Tesla Model 3 and Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid. Academically, he earned a Masters in Environmental Science from Drexel University and an MBA with a focus on Sustainability from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. Grassroots selling and support is great!!

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Virent and HCL CleanTech receive $900K grant to demonstrate lignocellulosic sugars as feedstock for drop-in biofuels and bioproducts

Green Car Congress

HCL CleanTech’s concentrated hydrochloric acid-driven hydrolysis technology builds on a proven industrial process, improving the economics of converting lignocellulosic biomass into refined sugars, de-acidified lignin and tall oils. Cargill, Shell, and Honda are among its investors. The grant supports almost half of the $2.1

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