Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2020

Connecting the adapter with a smartphone means that connectivity services are no longer solely reserved to customers buying new cars. On their smartphone, customers can keep an eye on everything—from low oil level through low battery voltage to critical tire pressure. The 500,000 th adapter was activated in Malaysia.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 3, 2012

My professional life has kept me busy, but I still have made good progress on my conversion. Motor volts, amps, temperature will be showed on 2 inch round dials in the place of oil temp, 12V battery voltage, and fuel level. First, someone on the forums has offered to sell an adapter from one of their former conversions.

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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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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When I tell a new acquaintance that I write about EVs, as often as not their reply is some sound bite that could be a direct quote from an oil industry social media feed. See a recent article in The Conversation , which includes links to numerous scientific studies.) Electrify Research has put some numbers to the nonsense.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

In parallel with EV conversion of the Saab 9-3, an all-new model will be developed (“Type 2 EV”), based on the Phoenix platform ( earlier post ) and additional technology from Japan. The Chinese can increasingly afford cars; however, the global oil supply would not suffice if they all buy petroleum-fueled vehicles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2012

The filmmakers of "Revenge of the Electric Car" urge you to bring electric vehicles to the front of the conversation next month, so we can introduce alternative energy mobility to more people and free us from inefficient oil dependance. Grab a friend who knows nothing about electric cars and take him or her to see this film!

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

New Leaf, located in San Diego, collects used cooking oil from more than 1,500 restaurants and industrial kitchens and converts it into biodiesel. The Energy Commission is also awarding $1,074,000 in buy-down incentives for 46 alternative-fuel vehicles. Villa Ford Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2010

It makes it clear that the conversion of a forest to a palm oil plantation would fall foul of the sustainability requirements. Promote only biofuels with high greenhouse gas savings. To show that they are sustainable according to the Directive, the supplier can join a voluntary scheme.

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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. This should be our moment. Give rides! It’s up to us.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

812,610 to retrofit two collection tank trucks to run on straight vegetable oil and for two storage tanks. The tankers will collect waste vegetable oil from 750 of Ettline’s customers and deliver it to a processor for conversion to SVO. 131,100 to buy down the incremental cost of biodiesel blended fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

The two main components—the electrochemical conversion hardware through which the fluids are flowed (which sets the peak power capacity) and the chemical storage tanks (which set the energy capacity)—may be independently sized. Quinones are abundant in crude oil as well as in green plants.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The report hopefully points to the economics of EVs for fleet buyers; the conversion of the current $7,500 tax credit to benefit the consumer at the point-of-sale; the attraction of PEV attributes to some consumers; and potentially higher fuel prices to buoy consumer demand for PEVs. —One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

To get better fuel economy during the oil crisis I owned a Mustang II with a V6, but it really wasn’t all that bad. For me it was fantastic and a beautiful experience, and I thought that finally, finally, finally, the automotive industry was forced to go digital (because of the pandemic), and it made for a great buying experience.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Where Can I Buy One? Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In a new report examining the effect of federal tax credits on the plug-in market, the CBO finds that tax credits for buying electric vehicles—which account for about one-fourth of the policy cost—are likely to have the greatest impact on vehicle sales. billion through 2019. EDTA response.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). Even the car companies are saying, “Well, no one’s trying to buy our SUVs, so for us to stay in business, we need to have other kinds of cars.&#. A: Certainly, when oil prices are down, it makes it harder for the competition.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Imagine preventing carbon emissions and instead reusing the carbon to make household products, the clothes you wear, the packaging for your products, and other things you can buy at a store! We can clean our air and keep carbon in the ground in one carbon smart step. Single use carbon must rapidly become a thing of the past.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 5, 2009

The only manufacturer in the UK market to offer an LPG ready car at no extra conversion cost to the motorist, Proton has seen a staggering 375 per cent uplift in sales of its GEN-2 ecoLogic in the last month alone – making Proton one of the few manufacturers to increase their sales ( up 2.3 Proton GEN-2 to buy. Proton GEN-2 to lease.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

APRIL 2, 2009

The PHEV3A mission is to educate America on becoming independent from imported oil. Convert a car to electric today, or buy an electric EV next year. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle All Around America (PHEV3A) tour with "EV Jerry" Asher began on Earth Day 2008, in front of our Nation’s Capitol. Hybrids are also immediately available.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Treat all crude oils as part of the overall pool of transportation fuels. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates. Harmonize global LCFS policies.

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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. There, more than 60 employees and two production lines will have the capacity for 100 conversions a year. Around the world, specialists like E.C.D. Tesla Model S P100D, which provides 450 horsepower (331 kilowatts) in this application.

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Plug In India

MARCH 10, 2022

My ramblings on the 2022 EV scene I have an electric cycle, which is an eAdicct conversion kit added to a Schnell 26 inch cycle. It was such an ice breaker and conversation starter. Avoid buying EV's from such companies. I will only buy a small electric car that costs less than Rs 6-7 lakhs. The car was amazing.

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Baua Electric

MAY 30, 2024

And EVgo vice president Sara Rafalson told Politico that the company was having “a lot of conversations with talent.” ” Immediately after the announced of the Supercharger-related layoffs at Tesla, BP also announced that it was seeking to buy stranded sites from the charging network for its own use.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Next up was tying the READY and FAULT output lines into the green oil light indicator and red generator light indicator. Since the indicators on the dash already have one side tied to the 12V supply, I simply used a 2N2222 transistor (buy a pack of them at Radio Shack) to drive the two indicators. digital logic outputs.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 1, 2023

You’ll need to determine how much money you can realistically dedicate to buying and working on the car and future maintenance costs. It’s also important to factor in any additional tools or materials you might need before buying them and keep a running total to know when to re-evaluate and adjust if necessary.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

can be charged with “American homegrown electrons, not OPEC-related molecules of oil, on regular household electricity,” Asher said.If 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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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Charged : I see Big Oil moving into the charging space, and having a bit of a suspicious mind, I wonder about their intentions. And in fact, we’ve had good conversations with bp pulse and with Shell Recharge in our service territory. I believe we’ll see the utilities work to solve that problem. Charged : Let’s talk about capacity.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The conversion can double or even triple fuel economy, thereby severely limiting carbon dioxide emissions. The conversion is simple. 3Prong Power is the only plug-in conversion company in the East Bay. A conversion system at Pat’s Garage, for example, costs $10,400.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Yeah, go buy a 59k Tesla that can go 200 miles… then your screwed, sure go park and get a hotel and charge it for 8 hours… then go another 200 miles, great for long trips i’m sure. It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). I would buy a Volt for $40K.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. This does not mean that you will not be able to buy that Cadillac or Corvette you have been admiring. We can set a goal to have every new vehicle purchased be a PHEV.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

And I wasn’t interested in selling solar based on, “Hey it prevents oil,” you know. I know these them, I lived in Japan I know these people, I’ve sat and had conversations with them. And I get a lot of people who say, “Well you say I need a five Kw system but if I buy that electric car wouldn’t I need a 7.6…”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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.) I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Part movie spaceship, part oil independence klaxon, the sound fills the cabin and certainly wont appeal to everyone. Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? It seems like it still may be cheaper to just buy a well used Lotus Elise and modify it yourself. Luckily, the sound is kind of cool. Small size.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Cycled down to Bharatpur town to buy some fruits for the next day’s ride. Cormorant feathers lack this oil and so need to be dried after every dive. There was dinner with the local medical fraternity and just jas liquids and conversations started flowing, it was time for me to leave for my 2230 hours train to Delhi.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. Berkshire Hathaway first tried to buy 25% of BYD, but Wang turned down the offer. " One more thing reassured him.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. Instead they could buy back electricity at peak hours from vehicle drivers. And yes, buy cheap (night) sell high (day) and sell local (remember there are HUGE line losses in the common interstate grids- more so in daytime high power draw hours.

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