Graham Hill Explains Serial & Parallel Hybrids

Wednesday, 31. August 2011

2004-2008 Toyota Prius photographed in Bethesd...

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Those people working on the development of electric cars are yet to run with my idea of replaceable batteries, in the meantime it looks as though we will have to go with the sort of technology that allows you to have a petrol engine in the car as well as the electric motor. However even this technology is split although both types are referred to as hybrids Read more »

Graham Hill Solves The Problem With Electric Cars

Sunday, 28. August 2011

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Over the weekend I worked out how to download a video on You Tube onto a memory stick then take the memory stick and plug it into a USB port in the back of my new LG TV then watch the video, and jolly good it was too! I am told, by the instruction book, that’s the thing we never read until we’ve tried every which way to use the facility then turn to in Read more »

Chevrolet Volt Leads Electric Car Innovation

Thursday, 7. July 2011

2011 Chevrolet Volt exhibited at the 2010 Wash...

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You know when you see something and it’s so damned obvious you wonder why no-one has thought of it before like the suitcase handle with built in scales. Well I was reading about the latest electric car technology and a new entrant into the market, the General Motors owned Chevrolet with their impressively named Volt, get it, electric car, volt? Bloody Read more »