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The Power utility company Southern California Edison start to flex muscles with oilies in the competition to be one of the future automobiles energy providers....
SCE has ALWAYS been one of the few backers of EVs. SCE is the one agency that's actually better than Toyota for keeping the Toyota RAV4-EV on the road. No...
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Anyone know about these people?? http://www.axionpower.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 "We are developing and intend to design, manufacture and...
The direct piston engine generator is getting more and more attention. For hybrids, it is a good solution in between a direct ethanol fuel cell generator and a...
They are going a similiar route as Fireflyenergy (http://www.fireflyenergy.com)and some others, trying to improve the lead battery to make it more efficient...
GM presents the Chevrolet Volt at Capitol Hill: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20070719/UPDATE/707190446 PR stunt or not, it is always good...
Axion's specs show 12 Wh/kg. The 16 kWh Chevy Volt battery pack alone would weigh 1333 kg, as much as an entire Prius. Firefly doesn't give numbers, but they...
It is more than another publicity stunt by Maximum Bob. As I read the story in the Detroit <strike>Once</strike> Free Press, it is the same old ploy of...
Does anyone know why Toyota needs permission for an experimental plug in vehicle on the roads? The only difference from the ministry of transport perspective...
Hi David, It seemed unusual to me as well. What are they talking about? Rich ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at ...
It may be that because it is not a production vehicle, that it has not been certified from other perspectives.... safety as an example.... they may not have...
Thanks to everyone who calls 'em gridable, pluggable, plug-ins, plug-optional... SUBJECT: Toyota First w/PHEVs in US & Japan--8 Mile Ni-MH Electric Range ...
Hey David, I suspect this is pretty standard for cars using new technology. Probably a pretty pro-forma application. Hopefully the apps for H2 cars on the...
The Yazaki connector is back! Shades of the first conductive RAV4 EVs! I wonder if that's just for the prototype. Probably. Looks like the charger is in the...
From the video, it looks like Toyota has had a skunk works plugin Prius project for at least a few months, probably longer. Reasons: -integrated plug in the...
The hybrid version of the popular Cayenne SUV, expected to hit showrooms in the next two or three years, can't reach 70 miles per hour without the traditional...
Here is another article on Toyota Plug-in Prius. Things get more precise. It starts to be really interesting. Particularly the main specifications that are...
... It was based on Toyota's press release two days ago. http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/news/07/0725.html ... 67 km/h vs 100 km/h... I don't think it is not double...
... They said the development term was 2 years. ... The gas-filling is the left side and the charge plug is at the right. ... only) ... Toyota press release...
Hello Ken, Are you sure of the 67 Km/h because my own Prius is always going from the EV mode to the hybrid mode when I reach 50 Km/h, which thus means indeed a...
Yes, interesting indeed. Thanks, this is the first I've heard about Toyota increasing electric speed/power on the Prius. Hopefully Honda and others have...
My european Prius has the gas cap on the left side. That japanese one had the electrical plug on the right side. Maybe they have one on each side for each...
... Oh, I mean we can stealth up to 67 km/h without ICE running. The 2004 Japanese EV switch mode is canceled at 55 km/h (61 km/h on speedometer), but it does...
Some months ago they set up the competition as Johnson Controls/SAFT versus A123/Cobasys to make the Lithium Ion Batteries for GM's plug-in VOLT. Then they...
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