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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date. as stated. 5 Clayton B.

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MAEAA Web Links

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Lectra: Matts sweetelectric motorcycle Mazda626 : Jerry Halsteads conversion diary. MazdaB-2600 : a nice pickup conversion MazdaMiata : Bill Theeringer project Manx Dunebuggy : Scottsbuggy, bike, and Comutacars Maxion: Max HallsCommutamatic II leaning 3 wheeler MercuryCapri : Uve has a great EV design calculator on his page. (No

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Electric Vehicles Open-up New Business Opportunities

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The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles. For example, there is a pedal-powered hybrid electric motorcycle developed by E-Rockit. To help you out, there are some licensed retrofitting companies here.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Zytek (a UK based company) make the motor and drivetrain for it. The first one was the Zytek design you mentioned, but this is a 2nd "new and improved" design from Tesla, with more power, higher speed and greater range. There are already about 300 of them being leased on a trial basis.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Gallery: Plugging in at home Battery swap stations are a concept often associated with Better Place , an EV infrastructure company. Forcing companies to conform to standardized batteries prevents them from designing better cars. Of course, EVs that arent designed for battery swaps wont use it, and plug-in hybrids wont need it.