In March of 2011, Keith Barry, writing on the Autopia blog at Wired.com, reported that a Massachusetts-based company was retrofitting Lincoln Towncars as hybrids, pitching the upgrade to fleet owners primarily as a way of cutting fuel costs: XL Hybrids, a startup in Somerville, Massachusetts, has created a low-cost battery-powered electric motor that installs on [...]
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If an eighth grader can do it – albeit an exceptional eighth grader – why can’t they be mass-produced at affordable prices? 8th Grader Builds Solar-Powered Bike With GPS, iPod Dock download season of the witch hd The base vehicle used, and the priciest part of the project, was a Switzerland-built ZEM (Zero Emission Machine) [...]
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West Lake Hills, Texas “first community in Texas to add a hybrid vehicle to its police patrol fleet. Although other law enforcement agencies in Texas use hybrid vehicles for administrative purposes, the City’s new Toyota Highlander SUV will be the first police vehicle to be used on daily traffic patrols. The pilot program was initiated [...]
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: the NYPD has purchased 40 Nissan Hybrids – 22 to be used unmarked, 18 as marked blue-and-white “RMPs” (internal terminology for “Radio Motor Patrol [vehicles]). If it takes – it’ll be significant – but we don’t have the numbers at hand. Cross-posted on Caton Avenue. download tron: legacy the movie
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Jorge Chapa, writing in Inhabitat, reports that the Hungarian prototype for the Antro Solo, production planned for 2012, gets 150 mpg, and here’s how:The hybrid electric/fossil fuel engine, familiar now to most of us – which captures energy while braking, thus recharging the electric batteries;an exceptionally light carbon composite frame;solar panels on the roof which [...]
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Toyota promises plugin-hybrid by 2010, according to Chuck Squatriglia on Wired’s Autopia: It’s no secret Toyota’s been working on a plug-in hybrid to compete against the forthcoming Chevrolet Volt, but Wednesday’s announcement sets a firm deadline and makes it clear Toyota has no plans of ceding the green mantle to General Motors. It also underscores [...]
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