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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence.

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Super FET working Comments on Sykro Controller

Open Source Civic EV Kit

It gives a lot of power when requested and is quite easy to tune various internal parameters through the user-interface over the USB port. As I've mentioned before, the big solution to this is to use the factory TPS instead of a cheap forklift potbox (like a Curtis PB-5 or PB-6). In short, it's great.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. Some Americans, though, are eager to do business with BYD.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle. Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. And in a deal similar to the one already in place between Oregon and Nissan, Mitsubishi said it also plans to release its upcoming electric vehicle models the state.

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