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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

In short, I came up with four options for a practical, economical EV conversion: Ford Escort 5th Gen Honda Civic ('92-'95) Geo Metro Saturn SL2 After talking with several people, I got the impression that the Honda Civic beat the other three vehicles hands-down in the selection. This blog is the story of my path towards that goal.

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Transmission Removed!

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

First up was removing the rear portion of the exhaust system, shown here next to my trusty 34mpg 1994 Saturn. Someone else converted a '94 Saturn Wagon to an EV, but I'll keep mine!) I'll try to take more pictures as I go next time to document the process better. Here is the removed transmission.

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GM to pay $35M fine for ignition switch defect recall timing

Green Car Congress

GM will also pay additional civil penalties for failing to respond on time to the agency’s document demands during NHTSA’s investigation. The GM recall covers the 2005-2010 Chevrolet Cobalt, 2007-2010 Pontiac G5, 2003-2007 Saturn Ion, 2006-2011 Chevrolet HHR, 2006-2010 Pontiac Solstice and 2007-2010 Saturn Sky vehicles.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009. I think that our No.

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