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As fuel prices rise, Automotive companies are now turning their focus onto fuel efficiency. Auto manufacturers are coming out with new vehicles that are gas-electric hybrids which reduce gasoline consumption and boost miles per gallon. While that is fine for people who want new cars, others may be very happy their current vehicles and just wish they got better mileage and were kinder to the environment. APMC fills this gap by offering alternate propulsion, gas-electric hybrid conversion systems for existing vehicles.
A conversion to an alternate propulsion drive system will reduce our customer's fuel expenses, reduce harmful emissions and help reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil.
Click here to learn how this technology works
Other benefits of owning a
hybrid vehicle:
Besides the fuel cost and the environmental improvements, there are some other perks to owning a hybrid vehicle/conversion.
Some states offer major tax deductions for owning a hybrid/EV car. Check your local tax laws to find out how much you can deduct by owning an EV. Hybrid cars are more expensive than conventional vehicles because of their costly batteries, and because there are two separate engines under each vehicle's hood. New tax credits go a long way toward closing that cost differential.
Many states allow use of the HOV lane for drivers of a hybrid vehicle, regardless of how many passengers. Another component of the Energy Policy Act is the Federal Hybrid HOV Waiver, which allows states to open their high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes to hybrid cars that get at least 50 percent better fuel efficiency in the city and 25 percent better in combined city-highway miles over conventional models. So far 12 states Including NY, NJ, and CA are participating and many others are sure to follow.
Beyond these new federal incentives, 36 states offer some kind of rebate, incentive or benefit to encourage consumers and businesses to go hybrid. Even some businesses are voluntarily getting in on the act. Search engine giant Google is offering $5,000 to each employee toward the purchase of a new hybrid. Travelers Insurance also has pledged to start giving a 10 percent discount to its auto insurance customers who drive hybrids.
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Alternative Fuel News 
| GM Envisions Networked Mini Cars for City Streets | | Posted on: 2010/03/25 | | Submitted by:: | 
As drivers await the arrival of General Motors's much-anticipated Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car later this year, GM unveiled an electric vehicle of an entirely different stripe on Wednesday at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. The company's Electric Networked Vehicle (EN-V) is a mini electric vehicle built for two, unless you are using it to go shopping, in which case you might have room for yourself and a bag of groceries. |
| 3 Tesla workers die in East Palo Alto plane crash | | Posted on: 2010/02/19 | | Submitted by:: | Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla, said it was a "tragic day" for the company. While the coroner could not identify the victims, the electric-car maker confirmed that they worked for the company.
The plane was owned by Doug Bourn, 56, a senior electrical engineer for Tesla who holds commercial pilot and flight instructor licenses. Neighbors on the cul-de-sac in Santa Clara where Bourn lives said they had not seen him since Tuesday evening.
His plane came down in several pieces on Beech Street, about 200 feet from where it hit the power lines. Although no one on the ground was hurt, damage was extensive. |
| Car Bodies Could Store Energy Like Batteries | | Posted on: 2010/02/09 | | Submitted by:: | | As battery manufacturers race to produce more efficient lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, some scientists are looking to make the cars themselves a power source. Researchers are currently developing a new material that can store and release electrical energy like a battery. Once perfected, scientists hope the substance will replace standard car bodies, making vehicles up to 15 percent lighter and significantly extending the range of electric vehicles. |
| IBM, researchers get 24M DOE supercomputer hours to develop controversial lithium air battery | | Posted on: 2010/01/28 | | Submitted by:: | The Department of Energy and IBM are serious about developing lithium air batteries capable of powering a car for 500 miles on a single charge - a five-fold increase over current plug-in batteries that have a range of about 40 to 100 miles, the DOE said.
The agency said 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories will be used by IBM and a team of researchers from those labs and Vanderbilt University to design new materials required for a lithium air battery. The calculations will be performed at Oak Ridge and Argonne, which house two of the world's top ten fastest computers, the group said. |
| Drivers flag worries over brakes on new Prius | | Posted on: 2009/12/29 | | Submitted by:: | | It took Bob Becker by surprise. As he approached an intersection on New York City's West End Avenue, not far from his home, he began to brake his 2010 Toyota Prius. But then the hybrid hit a pothole and suddenly, says Becker, it felt like the brakes weren’t working.
“It was a sensation of losing control,” said the 39-year-old human resources executive. It was all the more disconcerting as the light had changed and pedestrians were starting to cross the street. “The first time it happened on that corner it scared the hell out of me. I wasn’t sure I could stop in time.” |
| Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars? | | Posted on: 2009/07/09 | | Submitted by:: | 
It takes a lot of energy to split hydrogen out from the other atoms to which it binds, either in natural gas or water. Which means energy analysts are skeptical about the overall energy balance of cars fueled by hydrogen.
Now, as Ariel Schwartz of Fast Company reports, Ohio University researcher Geraldine Botte has come up with a nickel-based electrode to oxidize (NH2)2CO, otherwise known as urea, the major component of animal urine. |
| SAHİMO Hydrogen Vehicle Travels 568 Kilometers on 1 Liter of Fuel | | Posted on: 2009/07/08 | | Submitted by:: | | Students from Turkey’s Sakarya University have unveiled a remarkable attempt at creating Europe’s most fuel efficient vehicle. The SAHİMO is a hydrogen powered vehicle that is capable of traveling 568 kilometers on 1 liter of fuel (about 353 miles on a quarter gallon). The students’ ultimate goal is to trek SAHİMO across 3,000 kilometers of the Australian Outback on just 3 liters of fuel in the inaugural 2009 Global Green Challenge. And you thought you were getting good mileage out of your Prius! |
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