Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Thomas said that ALTe is building a robustly engineered, professional quality, mass production powertrain conversion kit assembly operation and plans to produce up to 90,000 powertrains per year. The company will deliver these powertrain kits to a dealer network to be established. Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic. Click to enlarge.
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. 2 of 3) Driven by Detroit This strategic decision is part of what makes Bright different from the other startups offering to retrofit hybrid cars or to sell plug-ins. The 100 m.p.g.
Clean Fleet Report
JULY 12, 2022
Just for fun, the Lincoln Symphonic Chimes were created in conjunction with the Detroit Symphony. These six soothing and unique chimes, recorded by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, are a blend of percussion, violin and viola. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.
Plug In Partners
JANUARY 26, 2006
But Detroit auto makers ignored him. Bill Kwong, a spokesman for Toyota, says the company doesn't encourage buyers of its hybrids to use kits, made by some companies, that convert them into plug-ins, since "it cycles the batteries down way too deeply and shortens the life of the batteries." The current top seller is Toyota Motor Corp.'s
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
which hopes to sell cars here in three to five years, used the Detroit Auto Show to display a prototype sedan it says can run 60 miles on batteries developed in-house and another 190 miles on a gas/electric system. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. "By
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). The group pointed to a B.C.G.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
But after interviewing Ford’s Nancy Gioia at the recent Detroit Auto show, I’m now unsure of both the timescales involved, or how much the power and auto companies are behind it as a fundamental concept. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve.
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