The following may be especially helpful to non-members checking out the
messages -- since searching on the Yahoo Group is not easy.

Here's a selective chronology of CalCars' development process, in the form
of links to the key postings on the technical PRIUS+ Discussion Group. I
have listed only posts by myself and Ron Gremban, co-moderators, though of
course, many others shared their deep knowledge, wisdom and intuition.

One way to use this might be to print out this message, then go to the
message index at http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/messages,
reading any of these or others that catch your eye. You can jump from one
message to another just by replacing the # at the end of the URL.

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/1
Message #1 July 1, 2004 of PRIUS+ Discussion Group explains what we're
doing and why, invitation to selected people we'd identified from other
online communities, first strawman specs followed (Felix)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/59
July 20 updated Strawman Specs (Felix)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/messages/64
July 27 funding confirmed, ready to buy batteries (Felix)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/103
August 5: private by-invitation group now announced publicly (Felix)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/167
Sept 6: batteries ordered, EnergyCS controller received, options outlined (Ron)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/173
Sept 10: invitation to join the battery-pack building parties at Ron's
garage (Felix)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/188
Sept 28 prototype completed, now for debugging (Ron)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/199
Oct 6: first reports on performance (Ron)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/200
Oct 7: first public appearance of car (Felix)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/221
Nov. 11:running but not yet as PHEV (Ron)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/224
Nov 23: Running as a PHEV, confirming higher performance at highway speeds
(Ron)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/253
Dec 7: The driving experience (Ron)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/326
March 21: details on EnergyCS/Valence car (Felix)

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/message/370
May 20: summary and status of thinking about NiMH, initial discussion of
Ford Escape (Ron)

In the middle of all this, the news coverage started to hit, and we started:

CalCars-News Archive
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news/messages/1
March 2 first message

(Today's messages at the News Archive are excellent coverage of EDrive in
EVWorld and plug-in hybrids in Time Magazine--we encourage you to subscribe
to that list as well.)

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Felix Kramer fkramer@...
Founder California Cars Initiative
http://www.calcars.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus
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