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Web Links for Electric and Plug-in Cars
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RAV4-EV Spec Sheet
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RAV4-EV, the only Electric car offered for sale by the Auto Alliance, was interdicted
by Chevron's purchase of the NiMH patent rights (from GM) and subsequent lawsuit against Toyota, which was settled
in Nov., 2002, when the RAVr-EV line was stopped and the well-proven EV-95 NiMH battery was killed. All the RAV4-EV
operating today with over 100 niles range are using pre-2002 NiMH batteries. To this date, no major car company
is allowed to use the proven successful NiMH batteries, even Toyota admits Lithium is more expensive and doesn't
last as long as NiMH -- but then "mysteriously" refuses to discuss why they can't use NiMH. This is the
best EV ever made, still running on pre-2002 recyclable batteries. Note, all the materials needed for new NiMH
batteries can be found in old, recyclable NiMH batteries; so there is no "shortage" of Lanthanum, e.g.
The Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the Toyota RAV4-EV are
the most researched, the most tested, and the standard production batteries for EVs. Why is GM refusing to use
them on its Vaporware Volt concept car?
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Picket Toyota to resume sales of RAV4-EV
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Toyota: MOVING BACKWARD.
Up to Nov., 2002, Toyota sold a plug-in car; now, it does NOT.
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Marc Geller's BLOG
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Marc Geller, famous Th!nk driver and RAV4-EV owner, offers observations
and cutting-edge ideas toward reducing GloWarm gas emissions.
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ACPropulsion.com
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After being bounced out of GM, after Roger Smith was 'retired', the EV engineers went to San Dimas -- named
after St. Dismas, patron saint of renegades and highwaymen -- to found ACPropulsion.com and improve their original
design -- which GM had abandoned.
The ideas of Alan Cocconi and the rest of the EV pioneers of the 1980's were steadfastly maintained by ACPropulsion,
and remain valid (unfortunately still futuristic) to this day. For example, that EVs have unique character, should
not be treated as IC cars; slow charging off-peak; long-range travel should be by common carrier, not cars (i.e.,
you drive the EV to the airport to go to SF, not drive it there!).
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TeslaMotors.com
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Successor to the EV1, with even better, crackling acceleration, even more efficient, but mounted in a
sports car frame. On-board brilliant "reductive" charging plugs-in anywhere, allows fast-charging (some
of the charger is built-into the motor coils), 100% regen braking, etc. Using laptop Lithium batteries, may later
(after Chevron's patents expire) be upgraded to cheaper NiMH. A bit pricey, but worth every penny!
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Linda Nicholes receives her Tesla: 1
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Youtube video shows the Tesla store in Santa Monica, and many Teslas
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Linda gets her Tesla: 2 [video]
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Tesla is really the EV1, gen-III. Showing Ms. Alexandra Paul and others at the Tesla store
on this very happy day.
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Linda gets her Tesla: 3 [video]
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Chris Paine arrives in a RAV4-EV to buy his Tesla, delivered right after Linda's. Meanwhile,
GM says there is no such thing!
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Linda in TESSIE the Tesla! [video]
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Tesla drives in congested Santa Monica Blvd. amidst a sea of polluting gas and diesel
vehicles, then pulls away from the RAV4-EV as it takes off into the fast lane.
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Ron
Freund's report on RAV4-EV
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California Air Resources Board has no excuse for not knowing about the RAV4-EV and its relatively fault-free
history. Yet CARB allowed the oillies to kill battery EVs.
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GM's crime scene [video]
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Burbank, where GM killed the last of the EV1 and arrested would-buyers of its own product. No wonder GM is begging
for dollars, it would not even sell its own EV1 for cash! Now, GM has the gall to beg for money from the government.
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PlugInAmerica.com
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Order Who Killed the Electric Car through PIA. A small percentage of the purchase price goes toward the
cause --a duty that CARB abandoned.
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TruthDig.org
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Interesting news website
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Electric
Vehicles for sale
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Join the Yahoo group promoting solar power and Electric cars
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GMOil.htm
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Issue: was GM forced to kill the EV1 by controlling
shareholders?
Solve the mystery of Wagoner's angst about his "worst decision" being "Axing" the EV1, and
not putting the "right resources" into hybrids! Read and comment.
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chevron.htm
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Issue: why does DID an oil company control
the worldwide patent rights for the EV batteries, just long enough to suppress their use for plug-in cars? Chevron
sold the rights to Samsung-Bosch consortium, which is now outside US anti-trust prosecution limits.
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hondaev.org
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Honda all-electric Honda EV Plus, now taken back and crushed.
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NoGaso.com
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Live oil free with EV and PV!
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DrivingTheFuture.com
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PV Solar and EVs have synergy that solves our energy crisis
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Front of letter to CARB
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Print off Letter to California Air Resources Board ("CARB"),
mail or fax it in
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Back of letter to ARB
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Explanation of why gas cars lead to shrivelled lungs
in kids
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Signup to join campaign
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Used only for news of the campaign
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500 mpg solution
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Plug-capable hybrids can get up to 500 mpg -- with
technology available now
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Serial plug-in Hybrid
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Serial Hybrid definitions and how it works: 500 mpg
can be here, today! This is not rocket science, and much simpler than the Prius. Even GM, F and DCX can do it...if
they wished to.
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Comments denied coverage by
bribed press
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So many lies in the media, so many cases where allegedly bribed "journalists" just accept whatever
crock GM is peddling that day; no one asks GM the tough questions, no one even questions why Chevron owns and squats
on NiMH patent rights, why GM sold them to Chevron, why there's a corresponding shortage of NiMH; and a lot of
other things that the press just lets slide right by them. Bribed or not, they sound pretty insouciante!
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Vigil pics (01)
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Earlier pictures of the vigil to save the EV1, 28 days of 24/7 during L.A.'s
biggest rainstorm on record
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Vigil pics (02)
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Rally and later pics
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Older Pics
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Older pictures of vigil
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vigilog.htm
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Log of the EV1 Burbank Vigil as it happened
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gmvcom.htm
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Vigil Commentary
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