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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri. I had to build a controller from a kit,” continued Garver, who was a member of the Electric Auto Association at that time. “It Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I That gives me 30 miles on a sunny day.”

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

From the owner’s perspective there will be concerns in bidirectional use about battery drain and wear and tear, says Philip Krein, of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. And that’s much cheaper than a new $1,300 kit.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri. I had to build a controller from a kit,” continued Garver, who was a member of the Electric Auto Association at that time. “It Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I That gives me 30 miles on a sunny day.”

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-In Conversions Corp www.pluginconversions.com of Poway, near San Diego, CA converts the Toyota Prius using NiMH batteries and the EAA-PHEV open source control system, and will provide kits to qualified DIY installers. The kit is designed so the batteries can be upgraded to lithium-phosphate.)

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Illinois Institute of Technology with City of Chicago, MicroSun Technologies and Commonwealth Edison, Ford Escape Hybrid by All Cell Technologies (March 2007), Chicago, IL, contact: kcampbell@cityofchicago.org , alhallaj@iit.edu , sveupet@gmail.com. York University , Prius, Hymotion, November 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). Jim Tech Ltd.

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