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Robert Stempel, the former chairman of General Motors, has been called the father of the General Motors EV-1 electric car. Hes committed to promoting electric-drive cars hybrids or pure plug-ins and to powering them in an emissions-free way. He is a partner in Ovshinsky Solar with Stan Ovshinsky. The company is testing a thin-film, amorphous-silicon technology that will be far less-expensive to make than crystalline-silicon panels. The company is working on a manufacturing process that deposits a very thin film of amorphous silicon onto huge rolls of thin stainless-steel sheet, allowing photovoltaic panels to be made, not by the square foot, but by the mile, possibly reducing overall costs to near those of fossil-fuel generation.
Mr. Stempel is a also member of the Electric Drive Transportation Association, a group advocating for the adoption of electric drive technologies . He is not fixated on any particular type of electrically driven car design he likes them all.
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Saving the world might not be as tough as it looks. In this weekends Automobiles section, I investigate what its like to drive a Toyota Prius converted to plug-in-hybrid status, a 10 kilowatt-hour, lithium-iron-phosphate battery pack hidden under its trunk carpet.
The converted 2005 Prius, created by Plug-In Solutions of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., is geared to run in all-electric mode up to 52 m.p.h., as far as 50 miles. Or the battery pack can be used to augment the existing Prius nickel-metal-hydride battery, increasing mileage to a claimed 100 m.p.g.
It would be cheating to run a plug-in on carbon-based oil-, coal- or natural-gas-generated electricity. So we recharged it every day from the Ford familys 6kW, 36-panel solar array, soaking up radiation from the nearest star and turning it directly into fresh, homegrown trips to middle school.
You could do it, too. Solar-panel prices are dropping fast. Our system, installed today, would cost about 25 percent less than it d
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