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Test Drive to Work

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Shifting was a real pain on city streets since the electric motor changes RPM very quickly during acceleration or regeneration. I just have to get used to the concept of driving at higher RPM, since I got better gas mileage by keeping the RPMs low on my old car (which is 19 years newer than the 914 :).

Golf Cart 100
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DOE to Award Up to $300M in Stimulus Bill Funding for Projects to Expand Use of Alt-Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicles

Green Car Congress

LMHDV Fuel cell electric vehicles. LMHDV Electric hybrid vehicles. LMHDV Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Light-duty Neighborhood electric vehicles (if replacing full-size on-road vehicles). electric and hydrogen or propane and biodiesel or E85 and natural gas, etc.)

Stimulus 150