Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Tax credits and gasoline prices necessary for various electric vehicles to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles at 2011 vehicle prices. Those people who purchase electric vehicles because of the tax credit use less gasoline and produce fewer emissions of greenhouse gases than would otherwise be the case. Source: CBO.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Since our cars and trucks use almost two-thirds of the oil we buy, the quickest way to cut oil use is to free transportation from its grip. Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses. When they’re mass-produced, conversions will cost under $10-$15,000. We can upgrade vehicles too.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

It showed that while electric vehicles provide the greatest impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions for most of the country, especially on both coasts and in the south, significant parts of the Midwest had the opposite result, with lightweight gasoline-powered vehicles achieving a greater reduction.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Used Priuses, especially the Generation 2 that were made from 2004 to 2009 are becoming a bargain to buy, especially for the MPG and features you get in return. It was time to buy our first car. I was nervous as this was the first time that I was buying a car, so the experience was new to me. How did it all start?

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You could get the Geo Metro with an automatic, and I've found exactly one during my junkyard travels (and that includes EV conversions ). You could buy versions of this car all the way through 2017 in Pakistan. liters of gasoline on the Canadian highway. Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

It followed by using a PS5 controller to remotely drive in an updated version of the 2026 Afeela electric sedan being co-developed with Honda—an EV that will have a “digital platform for co-creation,” a “conversational personal agent” using AI from Microsoft, and driver-assist systems informed by AI. Looking at 14 different U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Conversely, encouraging shortened vehicle lifetime via vehicle replacement schemes can result in higher total-induced greenhouse gas emissions, the authors found. —Kagawa et al. Extending vehicle life reduces the number of new vehicles sold, with an associated decrease in energy consumed for vehicle production.

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Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2024

Tesla will aim to optimize its buying process for it would be possible to “buying a car in under a minute.” Musk also mentioned that Tesla may buy back shares down the line. “We’re in conversation with one automaker,” Musk said. Musk noted that he thinks Tesla’s Q2 will be better.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The utility is participating in a national consortium that recently was awarded a federal stimulus grant to purchase plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and the company is buying more trucks to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as well. million for the vehicle conversions. The matching stimulus grant will provide up to $2.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

While light-vehicle sales have been strong in the first quarter of 2012, rising gasoline prices—which averaged $3.92 As a result, not only are consumers buying smaller vehicles, but also the types of engines fitted to these vehicles are changing. Conversely, 4-cylinder engines were fitted in 42.7%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2013

An analysis by a team in Bangladesh found large air quality and associated health benefits accruing to the residents of Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) as a result of the rapid conversion of the motor vehicle fleet to CNG. However, CNG conversion was apparently detrimental from a climate change perspective, as CH 4 emissions increased.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

Conversely, don't let the other side oversell things -- while reducing tailpipe emissions is a necessary step forward in fighting the negative effects of climate change, the production of the materials needed for electric and electrified vehicles has its own environmental toll. It's not a ban on cars or internal-combustion engine cars.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 13, 2007

As presently consitituted, the Senate bill drops the requirement of electricity generators to achieve 15% renewable sources, but includes higher CAFE standards and major provisions for plug-ins, including conversions. 5000 could cover, certainly goes a long way, to make up the differential between a gasoline only hybrid and a plug-in.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The general assumption seems to be that Americans will simply ditch their gasoline-powered vehicles in favor of EVs. Businesses and public-sector organizations whose employees drive for work are in a unique position to catalyze the conversion of commuter vehicles from gas to electric. reach 50 percent EVs by 2030 ?

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 3, 2012

Politicians hoping to exploit the moment spread the notion that American gasoline could flow bountifully, cheaply and forever were the boot heel of big government taken off the neck of poor oil companies. We need about 25,000 Americans who don’t know it yet to buy a plug-in car. What needs to happen in 2012 to keep things moving apace?

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

No, this is a pickup for the homeowner who hauls big stuff on occasion but would prefer to do it without gasoline. But someday, someone will buy a well-used Rivian and find all kinds of hardware funkiness. The bed is quite useful, as the wheelhouse doesn’t really interfere with the width of the bed. It might not happen under warranty.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 9, 2008

Here goes (in no particular order): Things That Went Well During the Conversion The 914 AC kit from Electro Automotive is a good one. If you do your own conversion, tap into all these resources whenever you have an issue. The conversion car came from camp914.com I received much support and encouragement from everyone around me.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 9, 2023

On the similar era, the corporate plans so as to add electrical car capability by way of repurposing present vegetation, together with turning some into EV-only factories and including EVs along gasoline-vehicle meeting traces at others, stated Gerald Johnson, GM’s govt vice chairman of world production and sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

Using US EPA conversion factors ( earlier post ), 158 g/km is roughly equivalent to 34.8 mpg US for gasoline and 39.9 Average CO 2 emissions from new cars sold in the UK in 2008 fell to 158.0 g/km in 2008—4.2% less than the 2007 figure and 16.8% down on the 189.8 The drop marks the sharpest annual decline yet. mpg US for diesel.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Operating range of 2-stroke CAI fueled with gasoline, E10 and E85. Accordingly, the processes have been extensively researched over the last decade and adopted on prototype gasoline engines (e.g., Zhang et al. 2013a) Click to enlarge. Controlled autoignition (e.g., Controlled autoignition (e.g., GM’s ongoing work, earlier post ).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

For this baby-blue Rover, the conversion includes a powerful electric drive unit from a. That’s three times the output of the Buick-based Rover V-8 that first powered these trucks in 1979, and nine times that of the anemic 50-hp gasoline engine the Rover boasted at its birth, in 1948. The results could pass for brand-new frames.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

I never liked automobiles because I don’t like burning gasoline. January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). I never liked automobiles because I don’t like burning gasoline. The problem is that car companies put everything in gasoline, the SUV, the truck. And he was right.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Set a target of reducing the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel by 10 to 15 percent by 2030. Create separate fuel pools for gasoline and diesel. They will be used to generate credits for sale to petroleum fuel suppliers (depending on verification that their carbon intensity is lower than that of gasoline and diesel).

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

This catch-22 - you need the polluting engine running to keep the emissions mitigation running - has regulators including the California Air Resources Board (ARB) frowning upon PHEV conversions. Third party converters have spent time and resources tweaking their plug-in hybrids to meet ARB testing written with gasoline-only hybrids in mind.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

JUNE 25, 2008

What's the use of converting an EV if you don't get to buy some cool tools? With vacation coming up next week to remove the gasoline engine from the Civic, I needed to get an engine hoist. Having a gasoline "support vehicle" during the conversion to transport big items is a must.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Where Can I Buy One? Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The stations will allow the fleets to lower their costs by buying fuel in bulk, access federal motor fuel excise tax credits, refuel at the times most convenient to their schedules, and model successful use of propane to nearby peers. To support the vehicles, 35 propane refueling stations will be constructed. Total DOE award: $12,633,080.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

a hybrid is converted to a PHEV, it can reach a top speed of about 52 mph in electric mode before the gasoline engine takes over. He encouraged the county to buy the car in 2004, when a state energy conservation grant paid half the $22,000 cost, he said.The Honda gets 45 to 50 miles per gallon, Maynard said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

I don’t think the military should be owners of refineries—why make it when you can buy it. That said, it is important to realize that someone has to step up and create a market and buy. The end product is more like a mixture of 50% gasoline, 40% distillates, 10% LPG, and potentially C 4 chemicals, things like that.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Not what you think When the wrap finally comes off, though, I think there will be some surprise for anyone who had hopes of rushing out to a dealership to buy their first 100 m.p.g.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

Going faster than that triggers the car’s gasoline-powered engine, transforming the vehicle back into a traditional hybrid. The conversion can double or even triple fuel economy, thereby severely limiting carbon dioxide emissions. The conversion is simple. “It’s Who Killed the Electric Car 2.0.&#.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

Most of us just did our own conversions. Either that, or we’d buy one from someone else who did,” he said. But there are others of us who still have an interest in the conversion aspect and the more technical end of things.” “The Hornet was considered a luxury EV because of its size. They want to know what their car will do.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure. It is much more than that. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Unfortunately, “It’s been hard for folks to remember how many conversations they’ve had at these events, and sometimes their numbers have been wildly diverse,” he continued. I discovered that in British Columbia and the Yukon, and also Alaska, you can actually find electricity easier than gasoline.”

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 14, 2023

You can check the details  here  and buy the book if you are interested. GetElectricVehicle has published one book, “ Electric Vehicle Research Projects ” where we included a few projects, and it explains how to do each project in detail.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Unfortunately, “It’s been hard for folks to remember how many conversations they’ve had at these events, and sometimes their numbers have been wildly diverse,” he continued. I discovered that in British Columbia and the Yukon, and also Alaska, you can actually find electricity easier than gasoline.”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us CalCars Frequently Asked Questions Jump to: Environmental Effects and Benefits Alternative Fuels Batteries PHEV Conversions Other Questions Note: This page is overdue for a major overhaul. Power and Associates 2004 report ].

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