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Off With His Head: Heritage Customs Shows an Open-Top Defender

The Truth About Cars

A custom shop in The Netherlands has changed that with a new creation called the Valiance. Far from a backyard Sawzall job, this conversion involves a semi-electric soft top, roll cage which conforms to FIA standards, snazzy new wheels, different upholstery (water resistant, perhaps), and the expected scattershot blast of badges and emblems.

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Software Upgrade to Prius PHEV NiMH Conversion Kit Enables All-Electric Driving At Up to 70mph

Green Car Congress

Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp. kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. Ewert Energy Systems video (handheld) of driving a Prius PHEV conversion at highway speeds.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

That means that there is more likelihood that the actual demand that we see from customers will be substantially higher than the estimates rather than right on target or below estimates. “ We think there will be a substantial preference on the part of the customer to head to 220. ” The issue is the draw. But we see a 6.6

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GM, Segway to Make Vehicle - WSJ.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com See a sample reprint in PDF format. Opinion: Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Tax Day Becomes Protest Day 2. Obama Calls for Simpler Tax Code 185 comments 2.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Well that must make it tough competitive-wise because it seems like the majority of the installers I talk to DO carry the rebate for the customer up front. And do you wind up offering your customers some kind of assistance in filing the rebate form? You pay your taxes on-line. You pay your corporate taxes on-line.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

75 + taxes. Then there was the Finance Minister, Toda mal, the brains behind the Jaziya tax. Unlike Bharatpur’s marriage palaces, this was actually the genuine stuff, an old palace converted into a hotel. We were the only customers - the service was amazing. Found enough customers at the dhaba.

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