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Tata Takes On Air

Plug In Partners

So far the possibilities are very limited although we may be able to report soon on some changes in the market for conversion of existing hybrids to plug-ins. Negre says that technology could easily squeeze a cross country trip out of one tank of gasoline. " At Austin Energy we recently converted two of the utility’s Priuses to plug-ins.

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New York Turn On

Plug In Partners

Because companies bidding for New York’s conversion business must promise to build their facilities in the state, the plan may help move New York to the vanguard of a small industry with big potential. Toyota has already unveiled a prototype Prius that both imports and exports electricity.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

EVJerry" Asher In January 2009, Michael Craner and Madushini “Maddy” Gunawardana started planning a cross-country roadtrip from New York City to San Francisco. This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). Michael and Maddy employed multiple Web 2.0