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Bright Automotives Plug-in IDEA Debuts on Tuesday

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Bright Automotive will unveil its IDEA plug-in hybrid concept on Tuesday in Washington, DC. Bright will then take the IDEA will to Norway in May 2009 for the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS24).

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Bright Automotive To Convert VW Transporters to Plug-ins

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Start-up Bright Automotive, which in May unveiled its IDEA concept series plug-in hybrid light commercial van ( earlier post ), will convert VW Transporter vans with the series hybrid Bright powertrain as a bridge between the concept and the production version of the IDEA. The IDEA concept. Click to enlarge.

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Senate Energy Bill Contains $3.8B for Natural Gas Vehicle Conversion and Purchasing, $400M for Plug-in Vehicle Deployment

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billion in rebates to buyers of natural gas-powered vehicles, from light- to heavy-duty; and $400 million to support the deployment of plug-in vehicles in targeted communities. The addition of the electric vehicle provisions was a last-minute achievement, noted Ron Minsk from the Electrification Coalition during his talk at Plug-in 2010.

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Mark Zuckerberg seemingly pulls the plug on Elon Musk fight

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Zuckerberg’s alleged response to Musk suggested that the Meta CEO had reservations about the idea. “If Isaacson’s post on Twitter also showed that Musk attached a laughing emoji to his text conversation with the Meta CEO. The post Mark Zuckerberg seemingly pulls the plug on Elon Musk fight appeared first on TESLARATI.

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BT Group Converts Telecom Infrastructure to EV Chargers

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BT Group, Britain’s largest telecom service provider, has stepped forward with an idea that could ensure EVs are virtually always within range of a charger. The first such conversion has already been completed in East Lothian, Scotland. BT Group’s design will allow each street cabinet to offer two 7.4-kilowatt government.

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Suzuki Swift Dzire Electric Car Conversion with Gears

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By Atul Gopal We had an opportunity to visit Nothway Motorsports to check out their new electric car conversion kit. Government norms for conversion allow you a 10% deviation.) Hemank starts an EV conversion project by creating a 3D map of the vehicle - with special attention to fastener locations.

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APRA-E awards WUSTL $2M to develop predictive battery management system for plug-in vehicles; targeting more efficient use

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While the HMC project was only for modeling efforts, Dr. Subramanian notes that the main difference for the ARPA-E project would be the conversion of the fast codes to a microcontroller environment and the development of a patentable product, and significant validation. A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Earlier post.)

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