Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

But Frank’s worried about how much the batteries cost and how much they weigh, and how much room they take up in the trunk. Frank has got himself a battery fixation but he doesn’t seem to know that some folks have over 160,000 miles on the battery powered RAV-4 EVs that are still going strong after many years on the road.

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Electric Cars San Jose Cars Plug-in 225

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

Prototype Saturn Vue PHEV plugging in to a Coulomb Chargepoint ( earlier post ) in San Jose, CA. of Energy (DOE) and nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Based on the current restructuring plan, GM is accelerating the wind-down or sale of Saturn to the end of this year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Quallion developed the system under a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with a global Tier 1 supplier to meet OEM specification requirements and has installed the battery in a Class 8 truck for preliminary field testing with plans to obtain data for future commercialization. and a mass flow rate of 75g/sec.

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Li-ion Battery Batteries Fuel 218

Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The first wave of electric car buying is expected to begin around December, when Nissan introduces the Leaf, a five-passenger electric car that will have a range of 100 miles on a fully charged battery and be priced for middle-class families. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines.

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San Francisco Neighborhood Electric Electrical 100

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Newark yard has these five right now, while the San Jose yard (which, by the way, has one of the best taco trucks in the San Francisco Bay Area in its parking lot) boast 10 Leafs for your parts-pulling pleasure. Two years ago, I spotted this discarded first-gen Toyota RAV4 EV near John Steinbeck's birthplace.

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Nissan California San Jose i-MiEV 62

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. Establishing dealer network.

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