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EVs welcome at ReFuel on Laguna Seca Raceway

Posted 06-16-2009 at 12:41 PM by rbgrn
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From the website at http://www.refuelraces.com/,

"""For owners of all manner of clean power and high-efficiency vehicles, this is a chance to drive on world famous Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Electric, solar, hydrogen fuel cell, compressed air and other non-internal combustion engine cars and motorcycles will get the chance to drive the track for free*. This will include parade laps, practice lap sessions and Time Trial competition. Owners of...
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Making Electric Vehicles Work for American Families

Posted 02-03-2009 at 02:43 PM by rbgrn

Recently, I was discussing my vision of electric cars on american roads with a few different people. During the course of the conversations, I explained the limitations of range, battery life, charging and top speed. What I ended up explaining was that pure EVs are going to require an acceptance of different driving habits from most drivers. There will be exceptions, of course, but for most families there will be 2 major options: Drive hybrids or have 2 cars. Both of these options will work...
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DIY Electric Car Highlights and Progress

Posted 02-03-2009 at 02:42 PM by mattW

The DIY website has been going under some pretty impressive changes and has included some pretty interesting threads over the past few months, but with over 3000 members and an average of 400 new threads a week there is a lot of content to go over. So I thought it would be helpful to pick out some of the highlights of what I have found to be the most interesting threads and developments of DIYelectriccar over the past few weeks:

The DIY Garage; Robert has done an amazing job in designing,...
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Barak Obama or John McCain - Which Candidate will Revive the Electric Car?

Posted 02-03-2009 at 02:39 PM by xrotaryguy

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Big news! U.S. presidential candidates Barak Obama and John McCain are talking about EVs. Finally, American politicians, corporate executives and grassroots advocates all seem to agree that powering cars from clean, affordable and domestic electricity makes sense. However, politicians have talked about electric vehicles before and in the past, the talk did not translate into government support for practical technologies. Will things be different this time? Are the candidates
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Electric Cars are the way of the Future

Posted 02-03-2009 at 02:35 PM by rbgrn

Major news keeps buzzing about Hydrogen, Flex-fuel, E85/Ethanol, Bio-Diesel and other alternative energies but when it comes down to it, I believe that only the least common denominator will be able to survive in a world of constantly changing energy sources and that thing is called electricity.

Does anyone remember natural gas lighting in houses? How about oil? They were once a big hit, just like our oil-based engines in our cars are today. They went away for one simple reason....
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