Green Cars News

JUNE 10, 2009

If that’s your theory then you may have to re-evaluate after Ponway, California-based Plug-In Conversions Corp (PICC) completed a software upgrade conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at up to 70mph in a converted Prius.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Enterprise Holdings expects to complete the conversion to all B5 by spring of this year, with at least 50% converted to B20 by the end of next year. Enterprise Holdings is working closely with Toyota to repair all affected vehicles and return them to service as soon as possible. Tags: Brief.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Not the Subaru Justy , not the Toyota Tercel , not the Hyundai Excel and not the Suzuki Swift. If we're talking about realistic Metro competitors here, the base 1992 Ford Festiva actually managed to undercut the price tag on the cheapest possible Metro two-door hatchback that year: $6,911 versus $6,999. It was today's Junkyard Find !

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

By contrast, the 2010 Toyota Prius Hybrid has a very high hybrid value. It emits 44% less global warming pollution than its closest conventional counterpart, the Toyota Matrix, and its hybrid drivetrain costs a little more than $3,000. Ford, General Motors, Honda and Toyota all sell models with high hybrid value ratings, UCS noted.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

The new product is installed in the Prius Plug-in Hybrid, which Toyota introduced at the end of 2009. The new method performs at the same level as the conventional one, but with a more simple structure that does not need high-performance analog-digital conversion circuits or arithmetic circuits. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

About 60 vehicles will be used in the trial and have been provided by Blade Electric Vehicles, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan and EDay Life. The trial will also look at electric two-wheelers , as well as include some locally manufactured electric vehicle conversions. million) trial. Earlier post.). used in freight fleets. electric car.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 22, 2019

When we bought our first electric car in January of 2013, the Toyota Rav4 EV with the Tesla battery and powertrain, we followed Toyota’s advice on the right home charger to buy. Leviton’s partnership with Toyota was over and no new number was offered. But the number was no longer in service. But no one ever did.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

Although the first vehicle conversions have been to Toyota Scions, Johnson said that other car models are being considered, and the company is approaching some of their large-fleet customers about converting their three- to five-year-old Chevrolet vans. Tags: Electric (Battery) V2G. Earlier post.). New Technology at PJM.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 12, 2007

Toyota made the car, the Prius, that made plug-in conversions possible, and now they are trying to rein in the desires unleashed. Neither CARB incentives nor the efforts of Plug-in Partners have moved the auto makers to produce plug-in hybrids, so conversion efforts are moving along.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Currently only 12% of fossil fuel-based power plants are sufficiently green that electric vehicles powered by them are responsible for fewer emissions than a Toyota Prius. But the example of electric vehicles also shows how far battery technology must progress to make a large environmental impact. F of warming.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

Arkansans Power Electronics International and its partners the University of Arkansas, ORNL, Toyota, and Cree will receive $3,914,554 to develop and demonstrate a transformational, highly-efficient, ultra-compact silicon carbide PHEV charger. Tags: ARPA-E Power Electronics. Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT).

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Tesla is the first to sell a full production electric car in the UK and is known for its hefty price tag too, retailing at a cool £94,000. Add this to the exhibition of the eCorolla electric car conversion project (an electric version of Toyota’s old Corolla model, see video here ) brought by the eCars Now!

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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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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. And these advocates have successfully prodded Toyota to dangle a concept PHEV before our eyes. It also spreads doubt about the enviro bona fides of plug-ins.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

ARB could spend a year in conversation with stakeholders to figure out regs and credits for new OEM plug-in hybrid cars. Lately Goldman has been driving one around DC, meeting with policy makers and pushing for consumer incentives for hybrid conversions. However, there are innumerable ways to do it. Let the people convert!

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

Scott Peterson, Jay Apt, and Jay Whitacre found that the percent capacity lost in the cells (they used A123Systems 26650 M1 cells, which are used in the Hymotion PHEV conversion packs) per normalized Wh or Ah processed is quite low: -6.0x10 -3 % for driving support and -2.70x10 -3 % for V2G support. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins V2G.

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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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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of driving a Toyota Rav-4 EV conversion. Tags: Production Diary Production News Tesla Motors Tesla Roadster. What a beauty. It’s been five years since my last silver all electric sports car, a GM EV1, was infamously destroyed. But this week takes me right back to car heaven.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Rav Long Ranger Hybridizing Trailer The Long Ranger was an AC Propulsion project (commissioned by Toyota) to build a generator trailer that would allow liquid-fueled high-speed travel in the Rav4EV. Tags: evdriven. There were many obstacles to this project seeing the light of day - most of them bureaucratic. gallon tank had gasoline.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 28, 2008

SEC 132 Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program Grants to auto makers, suppliers, component manufacturers to encourage PHEVs, EVs, and advanced diesels. Tags: legislation. Here are the ones that caught our eye: Quantum's Fisker Joint Venture to Launch the New Fisker. Sign the On Line Petition News Summary I HOME.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

To calculate the power vs. time battery duty cycle needed to achieve this velocity/acceleration profile, the vehicle was assumed to have the physical characteristics of a 2008 Toyota Camry. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins V2G. The battery pack energy capacity was assumed to be 16 kWh.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

What's most interesting, however, is how easy (and cheap) it is to do a carbon emission-free 200 mile day in a 100 mile range electric vehicle, my 5 year old Toyota RAV4 EV. After an hour or so of breakfast and conversation, we unplugged our respective vehicles and went off to our appointments in the Capitol. They sued back then, too.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

Steady-state power inputs, outputs, and thermoelectric (TE) conversion, modeled by Ford engineers as part of a preliminary investigation into TE power generation. Tags: Engines Hybrids Thermoelectrics Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery. Adapted from Hussain et. Click to enlarge. Using an assumed exhaust gas mass flow rate of 56.5

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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. Toyota bZ4X production car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

Chevrolet S-10 :Brian has a new and very nice conversion. Chevrolet S-10 :Jim Coates very clean conversion Chevrolet S-10 :Mark Brueggemanns neat project, and more. Comutacar : Scott HullsC-cars and upgrades DaihatsuFellow Van : Interesting Japanese conversion. FordExpress : Svein Medhus has the first EV conversion in Norway.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). A: For the last five years, after they took the GM EV1 away, I’ve been driving a Toyota RAV4 EV. Tags: interviews chris paine In the Media. Reproduced with thanks to Whole Life Times. Q: How do you get around now? Q: What about hydrogen? .&#

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

2002 Toyota Rav4 EV VIN: 2630 - purchased 12/16/2002 For more fun, please click tabs at the top Rav4EV Discussion Group Signup Page In December, 2002, we purchased our 2002 Rav4EV. They are NOT conversions, but were designed to be electric from the beginning. Tags: evdriven. Much of the car is identical to the ICE counterpart.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

PHEV conversions are emerging at a frenzied rate (see the frequency of CalCars-News postings), to the point where its no longer feasible to track every instance of a PHEV. Many more heavy-duty vehicle conversions (including three recycling dump-trucks that will run in "silent" mode for pickups) are in progress.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2009

AVRC says that it has now completed more plug-in hybrid conversions than any other organization on the East Coast. Tags: Brief. They have also completed two ethanol optimization projects and they are now working with NC State University on electric vehicle and hybrid vehicle projects. —AVRC Executive Director Dick Dell.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). NREL, June 2006 Toyota Prius by EnergyCS Golden, CO Terry_Penney@.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2010

Existing hybrids, such as the Toyota Prius, need one DC-DC converter for the traction motor and another for the vehicle’s 12 volt system. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids Power Electronics. DC-DC converters. DC-DC converters convert a source of direct current (DC) from one voltage level to another.

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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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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) We saw Toyota getting highly beneficial rub-off from their Prius success, which permitted them to cloak themselves in the mantle of total greenness," says Lutz.

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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. Tags: evdriven. .  will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. The 100 m.p.g. • BRIGHT AUTOMOTIVE: Unwrapping the 100 m.p.g. Yep, a truck.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

Plug In Conversions Corp. PICC) has completed a breakthrough software upgrade to its plug-in conversion kit that for the first time will allow all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour in a converted Prius. You read his take on the new PICC conversion kits and a whole lot more.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why wont Toyota do anoher station wagon? The quality of conversations can deteriorate when real identities are not provided. Tags: evdriven. Louis Cooper asks… Q: Still love my "93 Camry V6 Station Wagon with third seat, at 125K miles but thinking about what next. AWD would be nice. Does Venza have as much room?

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