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Energy Conversion Devices seeking to sell Ovonic Battery Company; focus on solar

Green Car Congress

OBC invented NiMH rechargeable battery technology that is used globally in hybrid-electric vehicles, and in many consumer and commercial rechargeable batteries.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power). He’s been way ahead of his time.”

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Alec Brooks The AC Propulsion experiment thus became an obscure footnote in the tortuous saga of the green automobile. In early 2000, when GM announced it had ceased production of the EV1, it signaled that the automaking establishment was abandoning battery electric cars.

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Nissan experiments with charging system

Green Cars News

The idea is that it could theoretically be used for on-the-go recharging, alongside a grid recharge at night. Inductive charging has already been used on a number of earlier electric vehicles including the Nissan Hypermini and GM’s EV1. It is exploring scaling up the concept for use with its electric car.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. Bright Automotive, which spun out of the Rocky Mountain Institute in January, is building a plug-in hybrid vehicle that will get 100 miles a gallon (see Green Lightpost).

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th! htm Advocates of the Th!

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XL1 dive and drive: Volkswagen aggressively optimizes for efficiency in its sleek diesel plug-in hybrid

Green Car Congress

The XLI can be also be put into a charging mode, which runs the engine at a slightly higher point that required, using the excess power to generate electricity to recharge the battery. Volkswagen hosted Green Car Congress at the Wolfsburg event. two-cylinder diesel, 20 kW electric motor and 5.5 Power and torque curves for the XL1.

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