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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries. The nonprofit CalCars does conversions to demonstrate new designs and provide a platform for different batteries; we dont sell conversions. We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.)

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If the hybrids engine starts operating, at higher speeds or throttle demands or lower battery levels, the control system automatically stops the external synthesis. When the powertrain control system switches the car back to running on the electric motor only, the synthesis controller instantaneously sets the system running again.

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