article thumbnail

Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

I remember one guy who was irate just because he had to drive around us as he left a box store.” Kevin Douglass is an ambassador for Aptera,” Hanson continued. “As The first year we were invited, we planned to show a few conversions, including a VW bus and a VW Bug,” Douglass explained. Fortunately, things are different now.

Oil 98
article thumbnail

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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.) DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

Plug-in 45