Remove 2004 Remove Dealers Remove Kits Remove Market
article thumbnail

How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

Plug-in 41
article thumbnail

Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The documentary showed, however, that the car companies never marketed the electric cars to a mass audience and didn’t make them available to everyone who wanted one. “Why don’t they ask the dealers to go out and start their cars every third day?&# 3Prong Power only works on Prius model years 2004 to 2009.

Prius 100
article thumbnail

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. Establishing dealer network. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.)

Plug-in 45