Honda S2000 EV Conversion

JULY 7, 2008

So even doubling my mileage just didn't make up for the cost of a new Prius for example vs how much it would cost to convert my current car and how quickly I could recoup that investment. Cutting that cost in half with a Prius 20-30k would take awhile to pay for itself. Not bad compared to the 10+ years for the Prius purchase.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Story and photos by Kay Crow [Go to the link for viewing story & photo] Friday January 23 brought the “Spirit of DC,” a Prius Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vechicle (PHEV) to Groveland’s Tioga High School. His 2005 Toyota PRIUS PHEV carries 20 12-volt gel batteries in the battery pack. Each charge up should provide 10-12 electric miles.

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PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride California Sierra 36

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

APRIL 11, 2009

Asher drives a modified Toyota Prius nicknamed the Spirit of DC and in the back this hybrid has an extra battery boost. The extra lead-acid batteries will run the car about twelve miles on just electricity and they increase gas mileage when the car's using both power sources.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

APRIL 11, 2009

Asher drives a modified Toyota Prius nicknamed the Spirit of DC and in the back this hybrid has an extra battery boost. The extra lead-acid batteries will run the car about twelve miles on just electricity and they increase gas mileage when the car's using both power sources.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Limited ranged, lead-acid battery based cars, they have nonetheless proven the demand of even less than perfect electric vehicles. Sakura Battery Co is offering a line of EVs, including the Italian Maranello4 microcar. Despite being low-speed vehicles about which safety concerns have been raised, they have months long waiting lists.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. They are innovators.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

With recent improvements in high temperature life and cell safety CPI is excited about increasing Li-ion’s role in traditional hybrids like the Toyota Prius. Because what we call end of life is maybe a 25% loss of power or energy but it is still 3x more than what you get from lead acid. Li-ion in traditional hybrid applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2015

The purple line shows the estimated reductions for each new generation of the Prius. Hybrid market share is about 6% of vehicles sold in California—more than twice the national average—and about 20% in Japan (30% if the kei car segment is excluded). Historical and projected hybrid system direct manufacturing cost.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2018

cubic feet (more than Toyota Prius). In addition, the lead-acid auxiliary 12V battery found in competitors’ hybrid models has been omitted for the Ioniq Hybrid, resulting in a 26-pound reduction in weight. cubic feet. All Ioniq Electric models are equipped with standard Level-3 DC fast-charging capability.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Prius hybrid. Though equipped with decidedly low-tech lead-acid batteries and having a top speed of only 60-to-65 kilometers an hour, the car can go 100 kilometers when fully charged, according to the two companies. GM plans to launch the Volt in China in 2011. plans to launch by the end of next year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2016

cubic feet (more than Toyota Prius). In addition, the lead-acid auxiliary 12V battery found in competitors’ hybrid models has been omitted, resulting in an approximate 26-pound (11.8 Even the Ioniq Plug-in and the Ioniq Electric, despite larger batteries, both offer a generous total interior volume of an estimated 119.2

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And we all won’t be driving a Prius either – I’ll have my electric pickup truck in a few years too. Lithium, nickel metal hydrides and even advanced lead acid products are now capable of great energy storage and have strong recycle lives. Battery technologies are advancing rapidly.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

If you just set aside the fantasy goal of an electric car with the same or better performance than an ICE powered car then we could build utilitarian short range EVs now, and could have been doing this coninually since 1900 with lead-acid batteries. Toyota still has not made any money on the Prius.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. at least, the recycling infrastructure for the well-established lead-acid batteries is robust. In the U.S. In the U.S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. " The feds arent convinced. GM doesnt have a chance.

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