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Live oil-free with plug-in ALL-ELECTRIC EV and powered with solar rooftop Photo-Voltaic panels.

The Toyota RAV4-EV, created in 1997 by Toyota, was killed by the Chevron-funded lawsuit (2002). Toyota voluntarily sold the last 328 the public between Mar. and Nov. 2002, but can't make or sell the battery here, all of them are operating on the original batteries.

The batteries are here, no need to wait for lithium.

NiMH is the only battery proven to last more than 100,000 miles on an EV that goes up to 80 mph and more than 100 miles on a charge for years -- perhaps decades.

GM's refusal to use NiMH or Lead to make a plug-in car shows that they are still killing the Electric car.

NiMH lasts longer and is cheaper, is non-toxic; recycles, scrap Nickel is almost all recycled while old Lithium is just thrown into the dump.
Name: Doug Korthof
Age: 65
Driving oil-free plug-in cars powered using off-peak electric paid for by on-peak electric from our solar rooftop electric system.
City: Seal Beach
Hometown: Seal Beach
Country: United States
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If you could just plunk down your money and drive one out, they would sell as many as there are on the lot! As it is, they are sold out up to 2010. (3 days ago)

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Remove lying politicians such as Schwarzenegger and Bush, and their appointed flunkies like the CARB. Nothing else works. (1 week ago)

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Cellphones and laptops like to be 100% charged; we don't leave them part-charged, as we do with NiMH. (1 week ago)

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AQMD is still stuck on "the solution to pollution is dilution", the theory behind the smokestack. But what if there's no place to "dilute" it? What if the whole basin is already stinky? What if "NOx" (anhydrous nitric acid) is already eating up kids lungs all over? (1 week ago)

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California Air Resources Board fails to regulate auto exhaust, fails to relate that exhaust to the refinery pollution that it makes necessary, and fails to enforce the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate.

Only oil-free cars will stop our petroleum addiction. Instead, CARB attacks backyard BBQ, wood burning, port diesel, and creates complicated regulations designed to confuse the public. These things are bad, but CARB is IGNORING THE BIG PROBLEM, petroleum, while wasting time and $300 million per year on these snipe-hunts.

When will CARB attack refineries and oil emissions? When will they stop avoiding the issue? Maybe they should hold meetings near the refineries of Wilmington, which kill kids lungs every day.
GM helped Chevron kill the EV1, and now denies that the batteries needed for a plug-in car exist. This proves they do.
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RAV4-EV Battery story - part two (2)
October 19, 2007, 06:11 AM
Now that we've seen both the EV-95 battery and the car that it powers, what can we do with it? If these plug-in cars are made available for sale, some of the money that formerly went to the oil companies to pay for burning gas, leaving only pollution, can pay off your solar...

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RAV4-EV Battery story - part one (1)
October 19, 2007, 06:11 AM
RAV4-EV uses EV-95 batteries, as you've heard. What are these marvelous batteries? Are they invisible, immaterial? Can they be for real? Here's the story of how they came to be, and why they work in the Toyota RAV4-EV. And why GM never was much interested in using them f...

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Grifflisa| April 20, 2008
Great info Doug,
If someone just has the guts to steal the patent & make a proper battery, it should be done. That is simple ethics. How bad would Chevron look if the lawsuit hit mainstream media? (If) Public outcry could make the case go away, or at a minimum Chevron would sell the patent. This is America, if people stop being brainwashed by hydrogen and ethanol, we could move into th 21st century finally. And don't mind that Jimmy idiot. I have three cars. A Scion Xa, a Gen II Prius awaiting funding for plug in mods, and an 87 Buick GN (the other great car that GM killed) with 400hp for clowns like Jimmy. Of course the Buick gets the worst mpg. But how can I complain about a 400hp car that gets 24mpg. It also has fewer emission than any current GM when I run on Ethanol.
Being Green & taking money away from terrorist can be fun.
Rickdeckard2020| April 18, 2008
Hello Doug,

Its been 10 years since the Rav4EV and EV1 were killed, but how long will the pattent Chevron is using last for anyway?

Is there an alternative way of using the chemicals of that battery (perhaps even improving on the design) that would allow a battery manufacturer to avoid being sued over this decade old pattent?
rumple10| April 17, 2008
if we lived oil free, the trade centers would probably still be there, but the middle east would be a terrorist superpower. idk...
bjhorton2005| April 05, 2008
Just dropping in to say keep up the good work. I think the film, (and your participation of course) has really helped with awareness. I can only pray that all this talk about for instance the "Volt" pans out. However, like you say in your youtube vids, I am not going to put much enthusiasm into it. They already have a lot of the technology available and are choosing to ignore it. It is because the money isn't in selling someone a battery as energy storage. Bush offered the money for "Hydrogen" because then the oil companies can make profit off of producing hydrogen. Maybe that is why Alan Lloyd switched to the hydrogen pipe dream, cause if it works out he could get some royalties or something. The whole thing disgusts me, as I know it does you. Well, have a good one, -Brad
jimmy891| April 02, 2008
gas 4 life. i am the exact opposite of you

you suck

watch this maybe it'll change your mind about gas

It sounds cooler and its more fun
islandgrin| March 27, 2008
Hey Doug,
I just watched your speech to CARB live online. It was great, and true. Hopefully they will make the right decision and make the automakers sell EV's.
sircastor1138| March 09, 2008
Hi Doug,

I appreciate you Putting up all these videos and offering simple explanations of the EV situation throughout the states.

With all your NiMH support, have you looked into the battery begin produced by NiLar? I've just discovered it, but it seems like there finally a production NiMH battery available to the masses.
squishydemon| February 26, 2008
nice channel & i must admit, the background is what i noticed first ...does she come with the car? :)
Nichen| January 25, 2008
We want more videos my friend! :)
SSparks555| January 18, 2008
As I look at your wallpaper I say, "Nice Car." I only wish I could own one.

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