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CA Energy Commission awarding Wrightspeed $5.789M grant for retrofit range-extended electric powertrain for medium-duty commercial vehicles

Green Car Congress

Wrightspeed made its first conversion kit for the Isuzu NPR. With its conventional diesel powertrain, the NPR averaged about 12 miles per gallon in testing with a metro drive cycle. The system is therefore lighter, cheaper, and more efficient. High-power plug-in battery system with active cooling.

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EV conversion business profile: British Off Road, QLD

EV Central

This Australian Defence Force ute has been stripped of its Isuzu diesel engine and gifted a NetGain electric motor and Tesla batteries. Power steering you use an electric hydraulic pump to run the original power steering system on the Perentie; on other vehicles you use an electric power steering kit that’s fitted in the column.