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  • Members: 1169
  • Category: Hybrid Electric
  • Founded: Sep 15, 2003
  • Language: English
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This group looks at sharing informations on the advances of gridable hybrid cars.
These types of vehicles are using a combination of electric mode propulsion and hybrid gas mode propulsion.
With a daily average trip of 20 miles made by 90% of the drivers it is easy to see that a car able to cover that distance in electric mode would bring a big reduction in overall gas consumption.
Electricity would become the main power source and gas would become a mere reserve for hybrid mode driving when more then 20 miles must be covered.
As a result of the lower oil consumption global warming could be curved and smaller volumes of gas could eventually be made from Bio-Ethanol.
The GM EV1, the Toyota Prius, the Tzero and others are all steps leading in that direction.
With the help of people like Alan Cocconi and companies like Iogen or Compactpower; tomorrow, we will all be able to drive more silent, efficient, powerful and ecological cars.
Join the group and start discussing about the ways we can make this come true.

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Re: Chevy Volt based on ignorance...
"having jumped ship from Exide Battery (where he was CEO) just before it went bankrupt." See, Bob is not all that stupid. Sure, everything you said about PV on
Posted - Tue Jul 1, 2008 9:40 pm
Lee Dekker
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Re: Chevy Volt based on ignorance...
Lutz is not very competent about plug-ins, batteries or solar power.   While it's possible to put a solar panel on top of a car, simple calculations show that
Posted - Tue Jul 1, 2008 8:07 pm
doug korthof
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Re: Chevy Volt
I think he meant solar panel on the roof of your house, though it's a little ambiguous. Toyota's economies of scale are a huge advantage. But simply slapping
Posted - Tue Jul 1, 2008 3:22 pm
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Re: Chevy Volt
YES, fold out PV when parked in those too hot lots would make juice to run the air-co while you are away, charch up the battery and provide shade. ... From:
Posted - Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:12 pm
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Chevy Volt
So I read on the gm-volt.com website Bob Klutz is talking about a solar panel on the volt and a $40k price tag. They (GM) are trying to hard for their first
Posted - Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:21 pm
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