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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

A demonstration of plug-in hybrids and full battery electrics at an HEAA meeting. We now produce more wind energy than any other state by a large margin.”. The first year we were invited, we planned to show a few conversions, including a VW bus and a VW Bug,” Douglass explained. Everyone’s asking: How do we transition?

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Most of us just did our own conversions. But there are others of us who still have an interest in the conversion aspect and the more technical end of things.” I cut the frame and extended it, and then a guy from the DEVC donated a golf cart motor,” he explained. “I David McNeil’s electric conversion 1971 AMC Hornet.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 10:09 am Link It amazes me that in the vast debate about electric cars world wide including here in Norway, no one ever mention the fact that the batteries in such cars need replacement in no more than five years. So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015.

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