I have a few clarifications to my previous post to both the priusplus
and eaa-phev groups (this post is going to both):

1. I posted to the priusplus group (priusplus@yahoogroups.com) for this
discussion, as it has many members and viewers with significant
technical skills, who don't view the eaa-phev group, where most
conversion discussion is currently appearing -- and don't want to
subscribe to a group with the eaa-phev's higher activity level.
Membership to this priusplus group has been (and remains) closed, due to
lack of CalCars resources to sort through new membership applications --
but anyone can view its archive of messages at
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/messages.

2. I have also copied my request to the eaa-phev group
(eaa-phev@...), which has a whole new group of active
enthusiasts. Anyone from here wishing to post to the discussion can
email me personally at rgremban@..., and I will post anything
that fits.

3. This public domain project is designed to support the many, many
requests we have gotten from experimenters, schools, etc, who want very
much to convert a Prius by applying their own time and ingenuity -- and
accept an inexpensive, limited battery pack -- rather than wait and
spend $10-12k for an EnergyCS/EDrive production-quality conversion with
a top-end lithium-ion battery. We wish to support EnergyCS/EDrive's
efforts. We are thrilled to finally have our own EnergyCS conversion,
and hope everyone who can, will buy one. We also believe that by
helping empower experimenters all over the world to learn about PHEVs
through their own work and experience doing their own conversions,
public knowledge and demand will both be enhanced.

I fully expect and hope that others at eaa-phev will clean up, enhance,
document, and expand upon what CalCars, with invaluable help from many,
many people, has started -- and apply the concepts to other conversions
and creative ideas we haven't even thought of. Though we don't have the
resources to support everyone's efforts, we will do what we can until,
as we expect, our conversion efforts become outclassed, surpassed, and
eclipsed by those of other PHEV enthusiasts -- and even more by one or
more automakers.

Mainly in order to cut oil dependency and greenhouse gas emissions, and
increase usage of renewable energy for transportation, CalCars remains
dedicated to getting flex-fuel PHEV drivetrains to become the dominant
form of propulsion for new mass-produced ground vehicles worldwide.

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Ron Gremban, rgremban@...
California Cars Initiative, a nonprofit organization:
http://www.CalCars.org
Moderator & Technical Lead
http://www.priusplus.org
PRIUS+ PHEV Conversion Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus
Newsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news
Do-it-yourself PHEVs: http://www.eaa-phev.org
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