Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. We are all stampeding towards an electric vehicle future. During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. “It’s Who Killed the Electric Car 2.0.&#. 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.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Power and Associates 2004 report ]. Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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