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On July 25, 2007, Toyota announced it would road-test a handful of what it calls a "Plug-in HV" -- a Version 1.0 PHEV with "good enough" batteries. The car will have an eight-mile all-electric cruising range, using "oversize" Ni-MH batteries. Photo: Toyota.
Founder Felix Kramer's Prius, converted by EnergyCS. Full-size photo.
(Silhouette version found at Scenic Shots.)
Felix Kramer is the world's first consumer owner of a plug-in hybrid. He put 25,000 miles on the car in the year after it was converted in April 2006, flew it to Washington to give rides to Senators and Representatives, and put the car at the service of building what former CIA Director James Woolsey describes as the "coalition between the tree-huggers, the do-gooders, the sod-busters, the cheap hawks, and the evangelicals."
President Bush and Dave Vieau, CEO of A123 Systems, with a Hymotion-converted Prius, Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, on the South Lawn of the White House. "I firmly believe that the goal I laid out, that Americans will use 20 percent less gasoline over the next 10 years is going to be achieved, and here's living proof of how we're going to get there," said the President. (White House photo by Paul Morse)
1034+ miles on a tank! (It would have been better but it included a long round-trip to Sacramento.) Full-size photo
Typical performance for a "mixed" driving day (highway and local). Until the battery gives out after 50.8 miles, we get 85MPG equivalent or 3.5 cents per mile -- about half the cost of a standard Prius. (Assumptions: $3 gasoline, $0.09/kWh electricity) Full-size photo
Lithium-ion battery pack in CalCars' EnergyCS/EDrive converted Prius. Full-size photo
Updated battery installation in the PRIUS+ (summer 2006), with lucite display case and new integration. Full-size photo
Felix's PHEV charges at night; SunPower's photovoltaic modules (installed by REgrid Power) return electricity to the grid in the daytime. In Phase Two, a "vehicle-to-home" (V2H) system designed by CalCars and REgrid will connect the car's batteries directly to the PV system, providing home backup power for extended outages. Full-size photo
The "dongle" connects to any 120-volt extension cord to recharge the car. Full-size photo
PRIUS+ team: we built the first PRIUS+ conversion Sept 11-22, 2004, starting with a low-cost lead-acid battery pack. Pictured are (L-R) Ron Gremban, Felix Kramer, Marc Geller, Kevin Lyons, Andrew Lawton.
See About CalCars for names of those who helped but are not pictured. Full-size photo
This Silicon Valley delegation's August 2006 visit to Sacramento was noted as a balance-tipper toward the successful signing of AB32. See more at See more at CalCars and Global Warming and Felix Kramer's blog.
First row: Ellen Pao, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Dave Pearce, Miasole; Jack Newman, Amyris; Bob Epstein, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2); Nathalie Hoffman, CA Renewable Energies; Diane Doucette, CA Global Warming Campaign. Second row: Larry Gross, Altra; John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Amy Christiansen, Google.org; Felix Kramer, CalCars. Full-size photo
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