Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

Many, including electric advocates, some enviros and ARB staff, (even some cars makers, it would seem) want to figure new ways to use the regs to bring plug-in hybrids to market quickly due to their near term benefits, commercialisability and pathways plug-ins offer to true ZEV. However, there are innumerable ways to do it.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We are also working (with our for-profit integration partners) to offer installed "conversions," first for Toyota Prius, probably followed by Ford Escape and other forthcoming hybrids. Our goal is to encourage Toyota and other automakers to supply the market for PHEVs. See also: Electric Auto Assn.

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Prius Plug-in Plug Hybrid 48

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride 41

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

See also our EAA-PHEV:General disclaimer talk : Disclaimer edit Please visit the Conversion Interest page to help us gauge DIYers interest! Current Hybrids are natural donor platforms because they already have most of the needed electric propulsion components, so the conversion process deals primarily with integrating larger battery packs.A

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

General Motor eCrate conversion kits – by late 2021 GM plans to offer battery and motor kits for classic cars, allowing an easy EV conversion. Mazda CX-5 hybrid – the success of Toyota’s RAV4 Hybrid is prompting others to consider petrol-electric SUVs. It could kick off with a sleek electric ute.

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Electric Cars PHEV Australia Cars 97

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Whats more, mainstream consumers wont be able to buy it when it comes to market. have plans to bring plug-in commercial trucks to market next year. Tags: evdriven.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. Paul Guzyk and Daniel Sherwood of 3Prong Power. Photograph by Chris Duffey.

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