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Bientôt Electrique Association offers plug-in kit for the Prius

The French pro-EV association, Bientôt Electrique (which means "electric soon") is offering a kit, guaranteed for two-years, that converts a regular Toyota Prius into a plug-in hybrid. The kit can be obtained without a battery for €1,499. If you want to add to the Prius' standard battery, a 2 kW battery + kit is offered for €2,550 and the 4 kW battery + kit is €3,550. Bientôt Electrique will install it for €349. The battery is installed in the trunk and the two power levels allow the car to go either 15 or 32 ... Read more →

El(ectric) Camino takes to the road in Wisconsin Sebastian Blanco

For the last month, Tom Leitschuh has been cruising around Racine, Wisconsin in a 1981 Chevrolet El Camino without a single worry about his emissions or the price of gas. The reason is that his El ...

Can I convert an older vehicle to something more environmentally-friendly? Sebastian Blanco

Cash For Clunkers is officially over and helped put almost 700,000 new cars on the road. Now that the easy $4,500 are no longer available to buyers with low-mpg cars, we thought it'd be a good ...

Where is the government spending for plug-in hybrid conversions? Sebastian Blanco

Fact 1: Over the last few months, we've seen the federal government spend all sorts of money to try and reach the twin goals of economic resurrection and a cleaner/greener society. In the auto ...

REPORT: 115 Plug-in Priuses fail to crack 50 mpg average in year-long test Sebastian Blanco

When Consumer Reports tested out the Hymotion L5 plug-in Toyota Prius conversion earlier this year, they weren't overwhelmed with the results. Sure, the mileage they observed was boosted to about 67 ...

Want to take an electric vehicle conversion class online? 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Converting a liquid-fueled vehicle to electric drive is nothing new, but, if you've never done it before, then everything can be fresh and totally overwhelming. For those of you interested in trying a conversion project, the fine folks at Electric Cars Are For Girls are here to help. The site is ...

Electric car conversion business still going strong 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

We've covered a lot of vehicles being converted from gas to electric and thought it seemed to be a growing phenomenon. Still, we wondered if the recent collapse in gas prices and the economy had affected the trend negatively. We wonder no more. The Associated Press reports that the business of ...

Electric Ecotricity Exige Tesla-beater coming along, needs name 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Dale Vince of Ecotricity has posted some musings and video on his Zerocarbonista blog about the progress his team have made with his wind-power Exige we we're telling you about a few months back and things seem to be coming along quite nicely. His team seems to be more than up for the challenge of ...

Darryl Hannah converting "Kill Bill" Trans Am to EV 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The amazing Daryl Hannah is set to reprise her role from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill as the woman behind the wheel of that superbad 1980 Trans Am. Well, except for the deranged assassin and gas guzzling part. This time it's not a movie but real life and her ride is going to be eerily quiet as it ...

VIDEO: AMP leaves drawing board, hits highway 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Advanced Mechanical Products (AMP), the company with plans to convert hundreds of Saturn Sky roadsters from gas to electric power, appear to have a prototype doing some on-the-road testing. A video on YouTube shows a black "AMP" whizzing down the road and the cameraman announcing "...wards [sic] us ...

Honda CRF250R get a high-performance motocross conversion 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We have covered lots of electric conversions here but rare is the bird that soars like this one. The idea behind this project was to showcase the potential of A123 Systems cells that are also being used in a "conventional" car conversion. "Conventional" as in a 2003 BMW 325i. (We'll keep an eye on ...

Get schooled on building your own electric vehicle 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Are looking for a project to keep you busy this summer? Have you always wanted to have your own electric car to go along with your solar panels? You don't want to wait for the Volt and the Tesla is too pricey? Perhaps you can build one yourself. What's that? You don't know anything about converting ...

Zap will sell $24,000 plug-in hybrid kit to make your Prius get 120 MPGe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Unhappy with your plugless Prius? Zap thinks it has an answer for you. The king of green car press releases has issued another announcement, this time talking about the availability of a Toyota Prius and Highlander plug-in conversion kit. In collaboration with Hybrid Plus, Zap's kit will convert ...

VIDEO: CLE.VE.R's 60 mile range Nissan Sentra converted to run on electricity 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tampa Bay Local News did a report about a conversion by the Clean Vehicle Research Institute (CLE.VE.R) of a 1997 Nissan Sentra to a plug-in, fully electric demonstration car. The report says the car cost $8,000 to convert, has 27-horsepower, a 60-mile range and can recharge in two hours. CLE.VE.R ...

NBC News reports on electric car conversion shop 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Among the videos at the NBC News website, mostly of CEOs and political leaders, there is one video about a company that converts gas cars to run on electricity. This "tiny shop in the middle of Kansas," the NBC News reporter says, "turns out more purely electric cars than any other place in the ...

Did MotorWeek's Pat Goss make up a type of metal to discredit E85 conversions? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Recently, I told you MotorWeek's Pat Goss said ethanol conversions are impractical. Drive Flex Fuel put a video on YouTube countering everything Pat said. You can read everything they wrote below but the one thing that struck me was they seem to accuse Pat of making up a metal. The text in the ...

Video: Jim Dawson's 80-mile range electric Saturn 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Jim Dawson gives a great tour of his 1994 Saturn SL1 converted to run on electricity for an Illinois public access cable show (you can watch the video below the fold). Jim shows us the insides of his four-door electric car, pointing out all the changes he made and then takes us for a drive. There ...

All 1,500 San Francisco city-owned diesel vehicles ready to run on biodiesel 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We told you San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order in May 2006 calling for all diesel-powered city-owned vehicles to run on biodiesel by the end of 2007 and we told you recently it was almost complete. With a month to spare, this week the administration announced the goal has ...

Video: first look at John Goodwin's diesel add-on kit 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

NBC News got a look at mechanic John Goodwin's soon-to-be-released add-on kits for diesel cars in this video. The NBC video also takes a look under the hood of John's turbine, hybrid H3 that will get 60 MPG. That's not the only TV interview John has done recently. As promised, here is the article ...

Neil Young, John Goodwin talk about 100 MPG, biodiesel, plug-in 1960 Lincoln Continental on CNN Monday 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Update: The follow up article about John's appearance on CNN. Singer Neil Young and mechanic John Goodwin, who is converting Neil's 1959 (so it's not a 1960) Lincoln Continental Mark IV convertible to a plug-in hybrid that runs on biodiesel that will get 100 MPG, will be on CNN's "American Morning" ...

UC Davis to test plug-in hybrids in 100 households 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

UC Davis got $3 M from the California Energy Commission to open a new plug-in, hybrid research center. Pat's Garage will convert 10 Priuses for the center, adding a $12,000 battery that extends the electric-only range up to 40 miles, and the total range of the car to 100 miles per gallon. UC Davis ...

Biodiesel turbine, super capacitor, series hybrid... HUMMER! (60 MPG and 0-60 in 5 seconds) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Johnathan Goodwin is the patron saint of green cars (although as of yet, this honor has gone unrecognized by the Vatican). Last April, John was the guy behind the Chevy Impala conversion that smoked a Lamborghini in a quarter mile on the Earth Day special of MTV's Pimp My Ride. Arnold ...

AutoblogGreen video: electric car charger 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I talked to Joe Lado about his Pontiac Fiero that he's converted to run on electricity at a Washington event for electric cars this week. You can see the golf cart batteries and solar panels in the front and back of the car in a video below the fold. Joe talked about the many advantages of owning ...

AutoblogGreen video: plug-in Prius converted by Hymotion 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We wrote about Fairfax County's converted Prius before. I got a look at their converted Prius at an electric car event in Washington. The county converted a Prius to PHEV status in November of last year with a kit from Hymotion. Fairfax plans to replace this older battery with the new batteries ...

AutoblogGreen video: lithium-ion plug-in Prius 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The video above is a tour, at a Washington event, of a plug-in lithium-ion Prius with Alan Shedd of Jackson electric coop. The Jackson coop and CRN converted the Prius in February '07 and has logged months of driving data. Below the fold is another YouTube video all about the car's conversion and ...

The first EPA certified ethanol converter 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

You have probably seen a few kits to convert your car to run on ethanol. They are not legal. In fact, there probably won't ever be a kit you can just buy to do the conversion yourself. There are kits that will be used by companies that do the conversion. These companies are seeking certification to ...

Here's how the E85 movement can get scary! 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

As of today, the EPA has not certified a single aftermarket kit or component to convert a gasoline engine to run on E85. Even the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition warns such a conversion is "extremely difficult." The group's Web site also says: "Technically speaking, converting a vehicle that ...


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