Monday, February 25, 2008

Retrofitting existing vehicle fleet

It took me a while to find the Web site for Better Place, Shai Agassi's electric car company, since the Business Week and several other press mentions didn't see fit to include the URL. So I ended up publishing my blog post without the link. Finally -- here it is: Project Better Place.

And once there, what did I find in the discussion area, but a proposal for how to retrofit existing cars, just as I asked: Smart Electric Retrofit.

Note that a simple Google search did not turn up a freestanding site for these anonymous inventors, but it did turn up a couple of others: EV Power Systems and a reference to a site that actually has reported a number of efforts in this direction: Green Car Congress.

1 comment:

Amit said...

If you are interested in retrofitting vehicles to become plug-in look at:
1. AC Propulsion - http://www.acpropulsion.com/
2. EDrive - http://www.edrivesystems.com/
3. OEMTech - http://www.oemtek.com/

Also, here is an article about a guy that ha sdone it in Australia (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/02/14/1202760494735.html) and the company that did it for him (http://www.bev.com.au/)