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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Otherwise you’ll just be buying a dinosaur that you’ll have to pay to convert or dispose of. From there she went on to author and spearhead AB 32 our Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Plug them in, charge them up, drive silent, drive clean. You say you’re looking for something a little larger?

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Send us your EV REVENGE stories

Revenge of the Electric Car

in 2006 and a steady stream of fan mail from all over the world, we can really sense a global community of electric car supporters who want to see all-electric vehicles replace the inefficient and costly gas-powered cars on the roads. for their employees, Roque was inspired to convert his own car- a 1974 Aztec-7- into electric.

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EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

Green Car Congress

The new options would reduce some economic and procedural impediments to clean alternative fuel conversions while maintaining environmental safeguards to ensure that acceptable emission levels from converted vehicles are sustained. EPA expects the streamlined approach to result in a cost savings for many converters. Intermediate age.

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Toyota continues prepare the market for fuel cell vehicle in 2015

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Re-emphasizing the general technology points that have emerged over the past few months at different events while adding a bit more detail, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Product General Manager of the Product Planning Group, said at the Geneva show that Toyota’s current fuel cell (FC) system features an output power density of 3.0

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Chrysler and EPA to partner on hydraulic series hybrid powertrain for light duty vehicles

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Acting as a pump, the hydraulic drive is used to re-pressurize hydraulic fluid by using the vehicle’s momentum, thereby converting kinetic energy into potential energy. The system produces power with engine torque driving a hydraulic pump that charges the high pressure accumulator of up to 5,000 psi (34.5 Earlier post.)

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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e-Golf customers can drive the vehicle confidently, knowing Volkswagen is addressing the vehicle’s environmental impacts through many stages of its lifecycle from production, distribution and charging. These stands developed from the heavy harvests of the 1950 and 1960s, and have been since re-entered after 1988. Click to enlarge.

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MY2011 Ford Edge Features First North American Application of 2.0L EcoBoost, Two Ti-VCT Engines

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liter EcoBoost I-4, fuel economy on the new Edge will be 30% better than it was at launch in 2006. The combustion system has been completely redesigned and re-engineered to take advantage of the EcoBoost system’s increased performance. The new ratios complement the revised torque converter. Battery management: Smart Charging.

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