The Truth About Cars

JULY 3, 2023

Here's an '87 that received the camper-conversion treatment, now residing in a Northern California car graveyard. Toyota made extra room inside this forward-control design by installing a straight-four engine, laid over on its side, beneath the front seats. Of course, that price was before the conversion treatment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

Along with the registration site, the E-Transit electric vans have updated pricing, with a targeted starting MSRP of $43,295 for the cutaway—lower than originally announced—to $52,690 for the high-roof extended-wheelbase cargo van. No deposit or purchase commitment is required.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2023

The Tesla Model 3 Highland design refresh has been confirmed along with previously unknown design changes by a Tesla insider. For many car buyers, the Model 3 offers better driving dynamics and styling than its larger Model Y counterpart, and for others, its lower starting price is its enticing feature.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a promising new conversion-type cathode and electrolyte system that replaces expensive metals and traditional liquid electrolyte with lower cost transition metal fluorides and a solid polymer electrolyte. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Materials.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

Purpose-built electric bikes and e-bike conversions using hub-motors are now commonplace. That got me thinking, how hard would it be, and how much would it cost, to do a simple conversion now? It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. One thing that hasn't really changed, though, is the expense.

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EV Central

JULY 4, 2022

As an emerging force on the electric conversion front, we asked British Off Road’s Mark Calder to talk us through what’s involved, pricing and which vehicles are best suited to electromodding. EV conversion specialist British Off Road’s electric 1969 VW Beetle. Why did you start doing EV conversions?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The LightningElectric battery conversion package is available for Ford Transit as part of Ford Motor Company’s eQVM program. Conversions and service are performed by Ford QVM-certified upfitters and dealers around the world. Conversions and service are performed by Ford QVM-certified upfitters and dealers around the world.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2023

Automotive expert and teardown legend Sandy Munro will discuss Tesla’s advantages, the company’s build quality, and recent pricing changes this Thursday. Tesla Owners Club of Silicon Valley President John Stringer will meet with Tear Down Titan Munro to discuss Tesla’s advantage, price margins, and build quality.

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Electric Vehicless

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As the cost of an electric bike conversion kit in comparison to a new electric cycle is half approx & not too tough to assemble, if you have time & little bit of idea about installation you have to go with an e bike conversion kit. Electric bicycle conversion kits are generally divided into three types. Hub Motors.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It embodies a unique package not shared with any gasoline model and its design details transcend its sub-$40,000 price tag. For the most part, these were electric conversions of small cars—the Fiat 500. Yet it sends out some of the disappointing signals of the so-called compliance cars from a decade earlier.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

VWCV partner eClassics is planning to offer T1 conversions and T1 complete vehicles in the style of the new e-BULLI. As the basis for the future e-BULLI the team chose a T1 Samba Bus produced in Hannover in 1966, which prior to its conversion spent half a century on the roads of California. As in the new ID.3

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2013

a developer of technologies enabling the conversion of existing fleet vehicles into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, completed a $3-million financing with United Fleet Financing, LLC, through a private placement offering and mezzanine financing. The terms of this note include conversion features at $0.55 Echo Automotive, Inc.,

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Teslarati

MAY 21, 2024

Citing supposed Tesla employees, Melnuk claimed that customers are not picking up Cybertruck Foundation Series units due to the vehicle’s high price. Others pointed out that it is very difficult to be certain about the Cybertruck’s conversion rate because such data is privy to the electric vehicle maker. Not correct.we

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

Purpose-built electric bikes and e-bike conversions using hub-motors are now commonplace. That got me thinking, how hard would it be, and how much would it cost, to do a simple conversion now? It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. One thing that hasn't really changed, though, is the expense.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2024

Which automaker priced its hardware set allowing its EVs to back up the home? The Tesla Model Y undercuts the Model 3 by $5,000 —for those who are EV tax credit eligible—under the latest round of Tesla price cuts made last weekend. Which EV brand has the lowest ownership costs of any automotive brand?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

CoolPlanet BioFuels, a start-up developing technology to convert low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered ( earlier post ), claims it has achieved a conversion yield of 4,000 gallons gasoline/acre biomass in pilot testing using giant miscanthus, an advanced bioenergy crop.

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Plug In India

APRIL 16, 2021

By Atul Gopal We had an opportunity to visit Nothway Motorsports to check out their new electric car conversion kit. A car's springs and shockers are designed for a certain weight distribution. Government norms for conversion allow you a 10% deviation.) If the kit is priced around 4 lakh, Northway has a killer.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 13, 2023

An outfit called Flex has apparently been slinging these types of conversions for some spell but is now expanding its presence into America through a location in San Diego. It seems the Flex team will hoover your bank account for at least $52,800 for one of these creations, though that is a sum that includes the price of a second-hand Tacoma.

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EV Central

MARCH 29, 2024

A Taycan’s DC charge port is behind the front left wheel, and Tesla chargers are designed for Teslas to back into position and recharge at their rear-mount ports. A Polestar 2 owner is in heated conversation with an elderly lady in a BYD Atto 3, and she seems determined to be charging here a while. He’s not wrong.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. The advanced cultivation will be operated for 12 months to demonstrate the efficacy of the process and generate key performance parameters to validate the projected minimum fuel selling price of $2.50/gallon

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Swytch, makers of the self-proclaimed “most affordable” electric bike conversion kits out there, announced its newest model this morning. The UK-based company’s new Swytch GO kit comes with a super low pre-order price of just £299 (or US $349 for North American customers), though there’s a bit of a catch.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 9, 2023

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. Depending on spec, it can take upwards of 3 months to create one of these machines.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The price of lignocellulosic residues generated from the forest sector is currently very low (often reaching as low as $5 per tonne for bark and $50 per tonne for white wood chips) and the fact that the pulping industry is not using as much biomass as it used to certainly represents an opportunity for the energy sector. —Aguilar et al.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

Enteligent says its charger’s DC-to-DC conversion results in 20% energy savings and bypasses the EV’s internal conversion electronics, shortening charge time. The TLCEV T1 charger’s design integrates EV charging directly into solar canopies and carports. (It Pre-orders can be placed here.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 22, 2024

The first such conversion has already been completed in East Lothian, Scotland. BT Group says more cabinets in Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will be repurposed in the coming months—as many as 600 such conversions by the end of 2024. BT Group’s design will allow each street cabinet to offer two 7.4-kilowatt

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

The integrated design with small characteristic length scales allows compact reactor designs, potentially 100 times smaller than current reformer platforms. Electrification of SMR offers a strong platform for new reactor design, scale, and implementation opportunities. we don’t have to increase the production prices.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. All the commercially available freeway-capable (70 mph) EVs are priced way out of reach for the average consumer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), as of 13 June 2022, the average price of US regular gasoline was $5.006 per gallon, up $1.937 from a year ago. (An The average price of US on-highway diesel was $5.718 per gallon, up $2.432 from a year ago. Other important suppliers to the US.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 4 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), unveiled its third-generation XL3 product release for model year 2014 vehicles. The XL3 system features a patent-pending inline traction motor system design, the newest upgrade for its hybrid conversion system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

APRIL 14, 2023

While early indications of what would be updated included infotainment and minor design updates , the “leaked” photos of what appears to be the Highland design from a few days ago show a pretty significant front-end modification.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We expected it would come from higher prices or a supply disruption—we’ve all been surprised.) But it will take decades to shift most freight from trucks to trains, design walkable communities, shorten our commutes, and build better mass transit and high-speed rail networks. That’s why we need a second speech with a new strategy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The Transit Bus Repower is a full-featured powertrain conversion of an existing diesel transit bus to a battery-electric bus. Eligible California customers can receive up to $71,250 in HVIP vouchers towards the price of the Transit Bus Repower. —Tim Reeser, Lightning Systems CEO.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 17, 2024

He stated that he believes the future GM remains electric and that a sports coupe focused on sublime driving dynamics and a lower price point would be preferable to a model that’s focused on lap times and output figures. Reuss envisions a coupe-like design that also improves on the (woeful) outward visibility of the current Camaro.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A Conversion backers say the process has benefits for everybody involved. On 13 September, the U.S. But in the future, not all reactors might be so large.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2022

At once strong and featherweight, carbon fiber’s advantages come from its layered design. Products made from carbon fiber—despite their premium price—often head to the landfill at the end of their lives, along with any efficiency benefits they may have earned. —Nicholas Rorrer.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

Benefits to the economy include stable pricing, energy diversity, and increased economic development by reducing our need to import fossil fuels. Green hydrogen can be used to power anything from a power plant, to a steel mill, to a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. —Martin Adams, General Manager and Chief Engineer at LADWP.

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