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News from the Zap! newsletter KATU-TV New (ABC): http://www.katu.com/news/..../9539367.html KGW-TV News (NBC): http://www.kgw.com/video/business-index.html?nvid=168826

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News from WGN (Chicago, USA) Ted Lowe, President, Fox Valley Electric Auto Assoc. wrote: WGN broadcast the story "Little Juice Coupe" on Monday May 14th at 9PM and again at Noon on May 15th. The story is of John Jeide 's maiden voyage in his newly converted EV and other EV and FVEAA related information! The story video is posted on their home page currently: www.wgntv.com. Here's the link to

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News from OEVAby Ross Olson New blogs about converting cars to electric power have been launched by OEVA Memebers Rick and Tim: Tim's: http://914ev.blogspot.com/ Rick's: http://probeev.blogspot.com/

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News from South Florida Sun-Sentinel by Erika Slife Posted April 22 2006 Delray Beach--Running almost on empty, Charles Whalen bypasses the brightly lit gas stations and their $3 a gallon prices and confidently glides his Toyota RAV4-EV into his driveway. Popping the hood, he reaches for a giant extension cord and plugs his car into the wall. Whalen is the proud owner of two battery-powered

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News from the Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota, US) by DAVE KOLPACK FARGO - An electric motorcar that was first manufactured here nearly a decade ago is growing up. Global Electric Motorcars on Thursday unveiled its new six-passenger model, known as the e6. The zero emission car is street legal and designed primarily for master planned communities, resorts, hotels, military bases and

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News from CarJunky.com by ed newman I was looking through the 36 page car section of a Popular Mechanics when the following article by Roger Huntington caught my eye: "How Far Can We Go With The Piston Engine?" The article begins like this. "An early death for the age-old internal combustion piston engine is the prediction of some people. They say the exhaust can't be cleaned up enough to meet

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EDrive's Greg Hanssen "Greg Hanssen is the president of EDrive, and a founder and the vice president of engineering at EnergyCS. EDrive plans to begin selling its conversions this summer, and is targeting a price of $10,000 to $12,000, on top of the price of the Toyota Prius. The Prius suggested retail price is $21,725, putting the final price tag well into the range of conventional luxury cars.

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News from Bloomington Pantagraph (Bloomington,IL) ... "I think the practical application we are looking at is that we are demonstrating that a purely electric vehicle is viable," added Brian Clark, a faculty ... Read the full article...

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News from Turlock Journal (Turlock,CA) Want to pay less for gas? There's a class you can take at Turlock Adult School. Michael Parker is reaching out to the Turlock community by teaching people about electric cars. As a Turlock Adult School teacher, he will instruct a class about converting gasoline fueled cars to electric cars and explain why this is economical and beneficial for the

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News from Working for Change (USA) ... In 1990, the same year that GM announced the commercial production of its sleek electric vehicle, the EV1, California adopted a regulation requiring that a ... Read the full article...

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News from Arizona Republic (Phoenix,AZ) The SoLong Solar Electric-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAV, collected solar energy from photovoltaic cells on its wings and gathered enough energy in ... Read the full article...

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News from MixedPower.com (USA) ... Although MIRA's work with the heat exchanger is unique for Zytek's battery, known as the Zebra, other electric-vehicle manufacturers around the world use ... Read the full article...

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News from WorldChanging (USA) ... AeroVironment (AV), a developer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and electric vehicle systems, has successfully completed the world's first liquid-hydrogen ... Read the full article...

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From Japan Today: Mitsubishi Motors Corp said Wednesday it will enter a four-wheel-drive electric vehicle in an EV rally in Tokushima Prefecture this weekend. The Lancer Evolution MIEV test vehicle uses a lithium-ion battery to power four in-wheel motors, it said. Read the full article...

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News from Mother Earth News (USA) Issue # 65 - September/October 1980 In response to the many requests we've received for additional experimental auto information, here's... Mother's Own Hybrid Car! A little over a year ago we published an article (written by contributor Robert Marshall) that described an experimental hybrid electric automobile designed and built by an Arkansas electrical

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News from Autoblog (Santa Monica,CA) The electric vehicle will be powered by a lithium-ion battery and feature an in-wheel motor system where the motors are attached directly to the wheels. ... Read the full article...

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News from Earthtoys (press release) (USA) Global Electric Motorcars, and parent company DaimlerChrysler, debuted the European versions of their industry-leading 2005 GEM Neighbourhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs) at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Monoco. The special European versions of the cars will become available for sale starting in early summer of 2005 in selected markets throughout Europe.

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From the Green Car Congress Mitsubishi Motors announced that it will begin selling electric cars in Japan in 2010. Mitsubishi will build its EVs with in-wheel motors and lithium-ion batteries, both of which the company has been working on for several years. Mitsubishi forsees using the Mitsubishi In-wheel motor Electric Vehicle (MIEV) concept in hybrids and fuel cell vehicles as well.

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News from Los Angeles Times A Southland company comes up with a system that lets Toyota's Prius burn even less gasoline by connecting it to a regular electrical socket. In a standard Prius, a battery pack is charged by the vehicle's own gasoline engine and with electricity produced by the brakes. The car's all-electric mode is fairly limited because the Prius uses its gas engine except at very

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News from the Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) by Douglas Friedli TECHNOLOGY for the next generation of electric vehicles will be developed in Scotland following a £5.2m investment by the agency set up to develop innovation in energy. The Intermediary Technology Institute for Energy has revealed the first two projects which it will fund, just over a year after it was set up by the Scottish

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News from Minneapolis Southwest Journal (Minneapolis,MN) Behind the restaurant, Naked Wes unplugs and plugs his electric delivery vehicle into a power outlet before and after heading out. One word above the back door seemed to say it all: "Groove." The gizmo has a bubble-like door that opens upwards and closes downwards, like the iconic DeLorean in "Back to the Future." However, it has three

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From Treehugger: Inspired by the boxfish, DaimlerChrysler's new concept car is a super-aerodynamic (drag coefficient of 0.19, while the Toyota Prius is 0.26 and a model of the boxfish gets the high-score of 0.06) diesel 4-seater that gets 70 mpg (US) while exceeding the most stringent European emission regulations (now imagine a diesel-hybrid version!). The engine is a 2.0 liters 103 kW/140-hp

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News from CanWest News Service (May 31, 2005) by Shannon Lee Mannion Allan Poulsen, a software design manager who lives and works in Kanata, Ont., says he would bike to work if it weren't for the winter cold and summer sunburns. Still, he wants to be friendly to the environment, so he bought a 1996 Ford Ranger XL pickup and had it converted to run on electricity. "For my kids, I want to do my

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From icWales (Jun 1 2005) Imagine an electric car that produces hardly any noise, no air pollution, and is as fast as a Ferrari. It might become a reality in the near future, thanks to a revolutionary new motor designed by an enterprising team in Wales. If the IMP motor meets expectations, it could usher in a new age of rapid, clean, electric transport. As well as high performance vehicles,

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News from Gizmag.com Electric motorcycles are in their infancy but there’s a realistic promise of electric motor performance that is more suited for the racetrack than that of internal combustion engines and infinitely better suited for the road. As the first electric bikes find their way onto racetracks and begin mixing it with two and four strokes, it appears you need three times the

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