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Hybrid Resources

Awesome web site link for information on Prius performance
and great pictures of inner components! Thank you Bill!

http://privatenrg.com

The prius that shook the world

http://www.vfaq.net/docs/Prius_that_shook_world.pdf

How Hybrid Cars Work
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/hybrid-car2.htm

A website loaded with photos & information
about the Toyota Prius.
http://john1701a.com

Home of Custom Prius Accessories!
http://www.coastaletech.com

See how the Toyota Prius Engine (Atkinson Engine)
works through this wonderful animated
illustration by Matt Keveney.
http://www.keveney.com/Atkinson.html

See the safety ratings, and even watch the test
crashes for the 2004 Toyota Prius 4-DR.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/NCAP/Cars/2971.html

Read about the history of the hybrid vehicle.
Its history goes back farther than you think.
http://www.hybridcars.com/history.html

Want to know what Road&Track says about the
Toyota Prius? Read “2004 Toyota Prius - The hybrid
concept moves mainstream” by Dennis Simanaitis.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=6&article_id=828

See photos from the Hybrid Gathering 2003-10
with collaboration of WPI and NASA. Picture of
battery, fuel cell/prius battery plane. Yellow t-shirts
are post grad students (40) working on  fuel cell
plane and finished fuel cell car from a NASA grant.
http://www2.kluge.net/2004/hg.html

 



News

Radio talk show back on Saterday and Sunday mornings and afternoons or

   http://www.energyfreedomfighters.com

  Energy Freedom Fighters Radio Show 8:30 am dial

"The Energy Freedom Fighters" can be heard on the AM band radio on the Peter Blute show  on Thursday  morning on WRCN 8:30 AM on 8:30 AM radio, Saturday 6-7 am, and Sunday 5-6 am and 5-6 pm (50k watts) . (Afternoon pending Red Sox Games)

 If you want to know more on energy issues and technologies you can subscribe the to Energy Freedom Fighters Daily Energy Briefing at info@energyfreedomfighters.com

 Also, were are on the archives of WICN, you may obtain the show "This New Car”  on wicn.org- mp3 or podcast.

 

         PLUG-INS

 

NOVEMBER 29, 2007 - The Energy Freedom Fighters field tested a first production-ready, 100-mile-per-gallon, plug-in Toyota Prius. The hybrid vehicle uses a high-performance conversion package developed by Montreal, Canada-based HyMotion, a division of Watertown, Massachusetts-based A123 Systems.

For additional information email gilleslabelle@hybridcenterma.org

  A Master of  Efficiency
Metrowest Daily News – Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Hudson man is driving the future of the automobile.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/health/view.bg?articleid=112014

 

Hybrid Drivers Complete Run for Mileage Mark

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 8, 2005

http://www.aiada.org/article.asp?id=45955



Events

Recording and appearance of the Energy Freedom Fighters at Percy Appliance Worcester MA April 5, 2008

Bring your electric bill!



links
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INVENTORY

Prius, Hybrid Camry and Highlander are available

At Herb Chambers,  49 in stock and 28 incoming 

Call direct 617-480-3148 Gilles Labelle


 

 



New Hybrids

 

Top 10 2008 Hybrids

http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/469/top-10-

Volta and future vehicles (0-60 mph in less than 4 seconds)

http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/future/volta.html

 

 



Evironment

 

Why the Hybrid Center - "global dimming" and Carbon Dioxide http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1108853,00.html

The head of one of the world's biggest oil giants has said unless carbon dioxide emissions are dealt with he sees "very little hope for the world".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3814607.stm

 



This radio talk show link
Plug-ins and Batteries

A123Systems Announces Patent Issuance for Nanophosphate™ Lithium Ion Battery Technology

http://www.a123systems.com/#/applications/phev/

Building the 2010 Chevy Volt: TheCarConnection Gets the Inside Story

http://www.thecarconnection.com/blog/?p=1087

$10 million bounty for super-efficient cars Automotive X Prize

http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/ 23715179/

Fisker Automotive ORDERS ROLLING IN FOR SPORTY KARMA

http://origin.mercurynews.com//ci_8472579

Alt fuel news from Geneva Auto Show

http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand=8olbi34t1e5et