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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

Green Car Congress

Pecan Street also offered a limited number of rebates for the Nissan Leaf and Prius PHV. When Austin closed the Mueller municipal airport in 1999, community leaders committed to redeveloping the site into a ground-breaking mix-used, sustainable urban neighborhood. The Mueller Community. Attributes include: 700 acres.

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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

Toyota Prius Prime PHEV – 14,275. The good news about the list of EV and PHEV sales from last year is there were 86 models listed, though several were cars that have gone out of production (like my Chevy Volt) but still managed to have a few laggards left for sale. The number of EVs in my neighborhood seems to be growing weekly.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

Andy Frank makes the observation that parallel hybrids (Toyota Prius) are cheaper than series hybrids (Chevy Volt). million gallons of gas consumed by those white little trucks trolling your neighborhood. The Prius is a parallel hybrid and Toyota plans to use a parallel hybrid architecture in its first plug-in hybrid.

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

Green Car Congress

CPI has 60 employees in its Troy, Michigan facility which acts as a technical and commercial center as well as pilot manufacturing facility capable of assembling packs at prototype quantities using production representative processes. it would bring down the neighborhood. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008.

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Snapshot of the California Zero Emission Vehicle program credit balances

Green Car Congress

Thanks to the Prius (AT PZEV category), Toyota has a large credit bank. Manufacturers can use these balances to provide flexibility in the timing and production of bringing new clean cars to the market to meet upcoming ZEV requirements. Automakers’ California ZEV credit balances as of 1 October 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

But with what’s called “Feed-In Tariff&# programs you would be paid the going retail rate for any extra solar production you generate. Convert your Prius to a plug-in hybrid and rock the world. Previous Prius conversion kits have been limited by Toyota programming to a top speed of 34 mph in all-electric mode.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Alternatively, may we suggest the sound of the neighborhood ice cream truck? Harman International, the world-renowned high-end infotainment systems provider, will be the production system integrator and supplier, and will work with vehicle manufacturers on model specific system architecture options.

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