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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. One of our 2006 Prius’ pack needed servicing and it only cost a few hundred dollars to fix 7 modules and change the bus bars connecting the modules by a hybrid shop. It was time to buy our first car.

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Algenol closes on additional $25M internal equity financing

Green Car Congress

Founded in 2006, Algenol converts CO 2 from industrial emitters into transportation fuels through its Direct-To-Ethanol process. This technology has the best chance of actually reducing carbon emissions while producing cheap fuel in the process. We are very pleased to expand our investment into Algenol.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Sometimes an EV is introduced as a model but is then converted into a sub-brand. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far. With no history to hold them back, they began developing battery-powered two-wheelers in 2006 and have never looked back. German companies like sub brands. Create a New EV Company. Is there a Right Way?

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? Our goal: Get car makers to build Bettah PHEVs than we can convert ourselves.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It It had gobs of torque," he recalls. Frank, now 72 years old, is getting some traction: A U.S.