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Cal-Cars Update

September 24, 2008

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Brendan Cadam, a new member of the Green Gears team is helping perform an update on the Cal-Cars vehicle. For more information on Cal-Cars the California cars initiative please go to Cal-Cars

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How to convert a gas vehicle to a Plug-in Hybrid pdf manual

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Tesla Model S Review

I have been looking for a word to describe the S. It is so inovative and new that nothing applies. A new word must be created to describe this new car. Clean does not do it justice. The car has no visible buttons or levers on the dash, no motor or batteries or wires can be seen anywhere. There is nothing under the hood, just a carpeted lugage area. Nothing in the trunk, more storage. The dash is smooth and tastefully devoid of any controls. The huge touch screen in the center console is the main input drivers will use to control the car. We have gone way past the point in automotive history where people want to examine chrome valve covers on a new car. The Tesla takes advantage of the electric drivetrain to reshape components and tuck away the motor , battery and other bits in a way that makes the car seem to be a rolling chassis or concept vehicle. The interior floor is almost completely flat lacking the tunnel and other contours that normally defi...

Green Gears, ECOtality, and the DOE team to instrument SCAQMD Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrids

Green Gears, ECOtality, and the Department of Energy collaborated on a vehicle project with South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) . The project consists of 21 Ford Escape hybrid vehicles owned by SCAQMD converted to Plug-in Hybrid drive by Quantum. ECOtality and Green Gears collaborated on the installation of cellular data loggers to record vehicle fuel economy through funding from the Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity contract from the Department of Energy. The vehicles will be operated in the LA area by SCAQMD. A solar parking area provides energy to the vehicles that get exceptional fuel mileage by combining battery power and gasoline power. The cellular data loggers will record fuel consumption as well as electric energy consumption from the solar array to give an accurate picture of how a larger fleet of similar vehicles could affect air quality in the LA area.

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