Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

Hybrid Vehicles

• History of Hybrid Vehicles (HEV)
• Hybrid Cars As a Baby Step
• Why Hybrid Vehicles (PowerPoint Lecture slides)
• Toyota Prius Hybrid Car
• Prius Primer Slide Show
• Energy Differences in Hilly Driving for Hybrid Vehicles
• Installing CAN-View on a Toyota 2003-5 Prius with Factory Navigation and Seat Covers
• Installing an X10 backup camera on a Toyota 2003-5 Prius with CAN-View
• Instructions for Capturing Data from the Serial Port of CAN-View in a Prius II
• Analysis of CAN-View Data Recorded from a Prius II
• Toyota Prius Accessories and Information

Electric Vehicles

• Electric Vehicle Interest Group of the New River Valley, Virginia
• PBS report on electric cars
• EVWorld on-line magazine
• Electric Cars
• 6 electric cars you can buy right now
• 30 electric cars
• Chevrolet Volt
• Tesla electric sports car
• Plug-In Electric Vehicles 2008: What Role for Washington? conference report.
• Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) vehicles
• A123 Systems/Hymotion Prius plug-in conversion (Click on battery to see its components.)
• A123 System/Hymotion Prius plug-in for L. David Roper Prius
• Toyota Prius plug-in
• Zap Electric Cars
• Dave Roper's ZAP Xebra PK electric pickup
• Daily log of the L. David Roper ZAP Xebra PK electric pickup
• Analysis of Sun Roper (ZAP Xebra PK) trips.
• Roper Recommendations for buying a ZAP Xebra.
• Dave Roper's ZAP dealer (Can deliver a vehicle to your front door.)
• Excellent EV dealer in Grants Pass OR (Can deliver a vehicle to your front door.)
• Battery Sulfation
• Gel lead-acid battery
• AGM lead-acid battery
• Carbon-foam lead-acid battery
• Lithium iron phosphate battery
• Nanobatteries
• Electric bicycles
• Electric tractors and mowers
• Electric airplanes