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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Click to enlarge.

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BMW shows future drive technoliges; 2 Series PHEV prototype, direct water injection in 3-cyl. engine, and fuel cell eDrive

Green Car Congress

Flexibility: the high-voltage battery can be recharged from conventional domestic power sockets, the BMW i Wallbox or at public charging stations. In Comfort mode, the high-voltage battery is automatically recharged by the high-voltage generator to a charge up of around 15%. l/100 km/26.7-28.3 Earlier post.).

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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 They are designing a tent with solar panels that can be used to recharge the batteries.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Recharge a Car, Recharge the Grid, Recharge the Planet Google.org supports PHEV & V2G with [link] project. Formed in 2002, our efforts for "100+MPG Hybrids" took off when we built PRIUS+ , the worlds first plug-in Prius). Vehicle-to-grid interface technology is also particularly well suited to Plug-in vehicles.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. 1 $100,000 Grant Moving in the Right Direction?

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Mercedes-Benz outlines synergies between F1 motorsport and production car engineering

Green Car Congress

liters for 100 kilometers (84 mpg US). The next step in hybrid development will be wireless recharging of the battery. Since 2006, this technology has been employed for more than 200,000 engines so far. It has certified fuel consumption of 2.8 And it achieves excellent efficiency in real word driving as well. Earlier post.).

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The new proposed rules also appear to contradict the board’s own recent attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in the wake of a groundbreaking global warming law signed by the governor in 2006. The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? “It’s Who Killed the Electric Car 2.0.&#. .

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