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Electric Car with a Generator on a Trailer?

Electric Cars are for Girls

I'm considering getting a 98 Saturn SL1 (I can get the basic car for about $1000.) My idea is to put a small electric generator on a.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

This marketing choice by Ford is either a very bad idea (brand dilution) or a genius plan to move the pony car into the modern era. It also toyed with the idea of presenting Prius as a sub-brand at the point it had four different models, but dropped it. It supplements, not replaces, the traditional fossil-fuel car. Lexus did the trick.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. And there was something utterly beguiling about this idea.” There are few people in the industry who have the combination of technical understanding, integrity, openness to new ideas, and kindness.”

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UW-Madison Hybrid Vehicle Team working with Engine Research Center to apply dual-fuel RCCI engines in series and parallel hybrids

Green Car Congress

The first, a Saturn Vue called the eMOOve, will be a series hybrid, to be completed in 2012. The idea of basically having a pump with dual nozzles filling both tanks simultaneously isn’t out of the question, because they already have the tanks. The team is converting two of its former competition vehicles for this purpose.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. Thus, the restructured GM was composed of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac, while the Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands died.

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Trainspotting

Revenge of the Electric Car

It was still a novelty to see anything pro-EV in a major publication, but what struck me at the time was that I had no idea who these people in Delaware were. I haven’t heard about them since (though the former Saturn plant in the area is slated for Fisker ) but the image stuck with me. The story of my life, so to speak.

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NC Transportation Center

Plug In Partners

I t's fair to say that the plug in hybrid ( watch video ) was born in California at UC Davis through the vision and tenacity of Andy Frank; but now, as the idea and the technology begins to mature and spread, another State and another University is joining the effort: Here's the story from Channel Nine news : N.C. NCSU Chancellor James L.