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Green Star to Demonstrate Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The previous successful public demonstrations incorporated test drives for a variety of people including legislators, government officials, race car drivers and other interested parties. Todays hybrids have small battery packs and cannot be recharged from the utility grid system.

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Volkswagen’s first two production battery-electric vehicles debut at Frankfurt

Green Car Congress

Electric cars are essentially equipped with two brake systems independent of each other: a conventional, mechanical, hydraulically operated brake system and the e-motor acting as a motor brake when when recovering energy. In an electric car this number of levels leads to a different way of driving. As a new car the e-up!