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EcoCAR 3 competition to use Chevy Camaro as base vehicle

Green Car Congress

For EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future, GM donated Chevrolet Malibus; for EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, GM donated Saturn Vues; and for Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility, the company donated Chevrolet Equinoxes. California State University, Los Angeles. Schools selected for EcoCAR 3 are: Arizona State University.

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Plug-in Hybrid Race on as Toyota Tests NiMH PHEV; A123 Challenges CARB to Authorize Conversions

Plugs and Cars

Toyota said it would provide prototype versions of plug-in hybrid vehicles to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Berkeley.The prototype plug-in hybrids will be powered by two oversize packs of nickel-metal hydride batteries Yesterday, in Sacramento A123Systems , the battery manufacturer being used (..)

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. Once again, a conference on plug-in cars.

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Grist Writer Gets the URGE2 Electrify

Plugs and Cars

In California, I and over 50% of the drivers of electric cars have rooftop residential solar electricity. Tags: union of concerned scientists electric cars urge2 plug-in hybrid chevy volt Saturn grist NRDC vue Sierra Club. But primarily it means escalating the fight against public enemy No. It's about the plug, stupid.

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ANL Project on Actively Coupled Ultracapacitor-Battery System for PHEVs Attracting OEM Interest

Green Car Congress

Results of an earlier simulation study of capacitor sizing for the system shows that a 75-100 Whr capacitor bank is appropriate for a Saturn VUE-sized PHEV. Magna Corp will use an ANL ultracapacitor/power converter on a prototype OEM EV targeted to meet the 2012 California ZEV Mandate. This unit is under test Mar-June 2009.

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NC Transportation Center

Plug In Partners

I t's fair to say that the plug in hybrid ( watch video ) was born in California at UC Davis through the vision and tenacity of Andy Frank; but now, as the idea and the technology begins to mature and spread, another State and another University is joining the effort: Here's the story from Channel Nine news : N.C.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

nk City cars when Ford brought them to California to meet its ZEV Mandate obligation. Contracts for lithium batteries for the plug-in hybrid Saturn Vue and the Chevrolet Volt have received much press. They will join the one Honda Fuel Cell car currently in private hands in Southern California. I believe Google would find Th!nk

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