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• Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon.....
  Historical mailing list - Bill Shawley
  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:19:43 +0000
  ...It's official - Volkswagen is unveiling a hybrid to challenge the mighty Toyota Prius. And not just any hybrid, but a diesel-electric hybrid...
• Re: [vanagon] Re: electric or hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Mon, 28 Apr 2003 22:06:03 -0400
  Joel Walker wrote: > see, to me, the better choice would be a hybrid .... but not the > way they are doing it. back to the...
• Re: Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon.....
  Historical mailing list - azsun99
  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:24:07 -0700
  ...It's official - Volkswagen is unveiling a hybrid to challenge the mighty Toyota Prius. And not just any hybrid, but a diesel-electric hybrid...
• Re: inline hybrid motor?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:19:50 -0500
  Don, care to explain this? What is an "inline hybrid motor"? ---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > As I was tuning my inline hybrid...
• Re: Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon.....
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:28:12 -0800
  ...It's official - Volkswagen is unveiling a hybrid to challenge the mighty Toyota Prius. And not just any hybrid, but a diesel-electric hybrid...
• Re: Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon.....
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:37:35 -0500
  ...Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon..... > > > This might be old news to some, it is the first I've heard of it. Gives...
• Re: Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon.....
  Historical mailing list - Donna Skarloken
  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:47:04 -0800
  ...Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon..... > > > This might be old news to some, it is the first I've heard of it. Gives...
• Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:06:01 -0500
  ...Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid - AOL Autos <http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/plug-in-hybrid-conversion-kit/20080729104209990001...
• Hybrid Engines
  Historical mailing list - Stu Schwartz
  Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:46:48 -0400
  So when is VW going come up with a hybrid engine. I would love to have one in a van. We have a Prius...
• Re: electric or hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:35:53 -0700
  Sure, retrofitting an old vehicle to be electric or hybrid doesn't make sense. It isn't like swapping in a Tiico or something...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:20:28 -0700
  Volks, Not all hybrids are created equal. A Series Hybrid might be workable in a Vanagon and would be cheaper to do. Don't...
• Re: Volkswagen, Sanyo to Develop Hybrid Car Batteries
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Wed, 28 May 2008 20:45:31 -0700
  ...Another way to set up a hybrid is called a "series" hybrid. In this system, you have an engine running a generator that kicks...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:12:39 -0400
  ...Hybrid Vanagon > > >> I disagree completely with the assessment you gave about the benefits of a >> hybrid for long haul driving. I own a Honda...
• Re: inline hybrid motor?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:50:29 -0700
  The motor is a hybrid of an ABA 2.0 liter Jetta block('93 Jetta) and 1.8 liter eight valve head from a...
• Plug-in diesel hybrid from VW
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:12:03 -0500
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/fuel-economy/sns-rt-us-volkswagen-hybridcarbre91k0yb-20130221,0,1240746.story
• Re: Diesel vs. Gas
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:15:23 -0600
  ...Beware of the real hybrid mpg in open areas. The other trick that is now coming to play is the higher horsepower hybrid (toyota...
• Friday: New Beetle Hybrid - 1,350HP
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:15:21 -0800
  Check out this New Beetle Hybrid. The secondary engine only puts out 1,350HP... http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ Happy Frydaye, Jeff
• Re: inline hybrid motor?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:58:28 -0500
  thanks Don ---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > The motor is a hybrid of an ABA 2.0 liter Jetta block('93 Jetta) and...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Ikard
  Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:43:13 -0700
  I disagree completely with the assessment you gave about the benefits of a hybrid for long haul driving. I own a Honda Civic Hybrid...
• great vanagon conversion engine someday - new Hybrid Jetta
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:12:47 -0700
  http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/vw-says-hybrid-jetta-is-on-its-way/?nl=automobiles&emc=wheelsema2
• Re: inline hybrid motor?
  Historical mailing list - PSD
  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:19:26 -0400
  ...inline hybrid motor? The motor is a hybrid of an ABA 2.0 liter Jetta block('93 Jetta) and 1.8 liter eight valve...
• Re: Was Ford Galaxy Friday, now Technology Comparison
  Historical mailing list - Mike Riley
  Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:21:54 -0500
  ...That vehicle is not a "full" hybrid. > > Even when driven on an interstate highway, the hybrid system does provide some benefit. The vehicle stores...
• Re: Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:39:26 -0400
  ...The electrodrive is a mild hybrid that replaces the alternator, similar to the system used on some malibus and the hybrid GM suvs, no...
• Re: Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:41:29 -0600
  ...Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid - AOL Autos > <http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/plug-in-hybrid-conversion-kit/20080729104209990001...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:57:44 -0700
  ...Personally, I don't get the whole Hybrid thing. I have clients with a Toyota Highlander Hybrid (I think), after looking it over, I...
• Volkswagen, Sanyo to Develop Hybrid Car Batteries
  Historical mailing list - Steven P Smith
  Wed, 28 May 2008 08:07:28 -0700
  ...Could be viable hybrid upgrade on the horizon.. . By Naoko Fujimura and Tetsuya Komatsu May 28 (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest carmaker, will...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:29:19 -0700
  Why isn't there hybrid semi-trucks? Robert 1982 Westfalia --- > But why actually do you disagree with my statements? Because > you have > a hybrid...
• Vanagon Hybrid ? Wheel Motors
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:45:28 -0600
  Could be > Hybrid + 2+2 Wheel Drive + Better Brakes > All in 1 Upgrade ~ Also needs Controller & Batteries so No Idea as to When or...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:30:22 -0400
  I think the point that's being missed here, is that a big chunk of the gas savings in hybrid comes from the fact...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:06:26 -0400
  But why actually do you disagree with my statements? Because you have a hybrid civic? I'm not really certain I follow your line...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:17:25 -0400
  Keep in mind that a hybrid will be a total waste of time/money for the vast majority of vanagon owners. Vanagons are typically...
• "MotorWeek" hybrid segment was Re: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:20:55 -0500
  ...ask about who the company was they highlighted in the serial hybrid segment. The vehicle they looked at is the smart roadster done by...
• Re: Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cochran
  Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:23:38 -0700
  ...Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid - AOL Autos >> <http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/plug-in-hybrid-conversion-kit/20080729104209990001...
• Re: MPG redux
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:40:05 -0400
  ...It takes allot of miles of driving to make up for difference in cost between the non-hybrid model and the hybrid one though...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:15:14 -0700
  of course they have now come out with gas-electric hybrid cars that have very powerful engines - that Lexus Big Boat comes to mind...
• MOD Re: great vanagon conversion engine someday - new Hybrid Jetta
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:08:14 -0700
  ...Just excited about a VW hybrid coming to market. It's just not Vanagon related. Sent from my mobile device On Jun 15, 2010...
• capacitance cells, sorry meant to add was Re: Maybe now is the time to fill the tank of your extra car or
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:41:23 -0400
  Wil Haslup wrote: > turbodieseltrooper wrote: > >> WRONG - The electric motor, of a hybrid, only works while moving away >> from a >> standstill for as long as...
• Re: Hybrid vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Johnson, Darrell
  Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:52:16 -0800
  I am of the opinion that a good electric-hybrid conversion is just what the Vanagon needs. At this point the technology/cost factor...
• Re: And now for something Completely Different
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:36:34 -0400
  ...There has been a recent announcement of a hydraulic hybrid (as opposed to the electric hybrids)... http://www.iags.org/n033104t3.htm numbers seem...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - M'obeechi
  Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:23:24 -0700
  ...Hybrid Vanagon > Keep in mind that a hybrid will be a total waste of time/money for > the vast majority of vanagon owners. Vanagons...
• Re: Friday: New Beetle Hybrid - 1,350HP
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:12:09 -0500
  My favorite part has got to be that on letterman he argued that hes allowed to take commuter lanes due to his hybrid dual...
• Re: inline hybrid motor?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
  Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:32:12 -0400
  ...14:50 Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> napisał(a): > The motor is a hybrid of an ABA 2.0 liter Jetta block('93 Jetta...
• Hybrid Engine Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:31:33 -0400
  They did full electric, not a hybrid. Jim Akiba On 10/4/07, Warren Chapman <vwsyncroguy@yahoo.com> wrote: > > It's already been done...
• Re: Vanagons as electric vehicles and other stuff....
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Tue, 6 May 2008 00:01:02 -0400
  Then build a hybrid! Put a 1.6NA diesel in the back of a syncro, remove the driveshaft, install a solid shaft in replacement...
• Re: Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid
  Historical mailing list - Christian Pelletier
  Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:32:20 -0700
  ...The electrodrive is a mild hybrid that replaces the alternator, similar to the system used on some malibus and the hybrid GM suvs, no...
• Re: New VW EOS- NVC but interesting
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:07:37 -0400
  ...Not TDI, or Hybrid (not thqt VW would do a Hybrid) On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:26 PM, don spence wrote: > http://www...
• Re: Hybrids on NPR last night
  Historical mailing list - tmiller
  Sat, 15 May 2004 22:11:48 -0400
  ...I'll take the Passat any day over any hybrid vehicle. An alternative fuel vehicle as well, way ahead of it's time. TEMiller...
• Re: Friday: New Beetle Hybrid - 1,350HP
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:25:48 -0800
  ...New Beetle Hybrid - 1,350HP Saw this beetle/owner on D. Letterman Show one nite. He says it is street legal & he can drive...
• Re: Global Warming My Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:45:52 EDT
  ...But I think we're being sold a bit of a bill of goods with these "hybrids," and especially SUV Hybrids and the like...
• Re: Maybe now is the time to fill the tank of your extra car or "parts vanagon"
  Historical mailing list - Alan Sinclair
  Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:32:02 -0700
  Unfortunately even hybrids are not answering the call to reduce gas consumption. Except for the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight, hybridization is being...
• Hybrid vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Dunn
  Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:08:44 EST
  ...I'm interested in building a hybrid gas/electric version. This is an interesting mod I can find the time to work on. Does...
• Re: Friday: Hybridengine VW
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 27 May 2006 13:01:32 -0700
  ...ZORCK.DK> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 8:14 AM Subject: Friday: Hybridengine VW > http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ > > Wow!!!!!!!!!!!
• serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:40:49 -0500
  Recently I saw a segment of MotorWeek highlighting a small company building 'serial' hybrid conversions. Serial hybrids are different from the parallel hybrids being...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:19:36 -0400
  ...My pessimism is based on the crappy mpg that the hybrid suv's get:http://www.hybridsuv.com/ even with smaller engines than stock...
• Re: Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon.....
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:05:41 -0500
  ...Golf diesel hybrid 69 mpg coming soon..... >> >> >> This might be old news to some, it is the first I've heard of it. Gives...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:41:42 -0700
  ...2008 2:33 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Hybrid Vanagon Hmmmm. Lets see how Volkswagen did it during the last energy...
• Re: Diamler chrysler vw...--update( new style voyager)
  Historical mailing list - Jon Brown
  Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:54:10 -0700
  ...They, Daimler/Chrysler, are working on a Hybrid powered Sprinter... granted the news is really 6 months old, but it's new to me...
• Re: Engine conversion
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:36:27 +1200
  ...If a mewchanic refused to work on my hybrid because it's a hybrid, he's admitting incompetence, I wouldn't want him to...
• Re: Vanagon Hybrid ? Wheel Motors
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:36:34 -0700
  ...at 10:46 AM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote: > Could be > > > Hybrid + 2+2 Wheel Drive + Better Brakes > All in 1 Upgrade ~ > > Also needs...
• Re: Friday: New Beetle Hybrid - 1,350HP
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:48:39 -0700
  ...3:15 PM, Jeffrey Schwaia wrote: > Check out this New Beetle Hybrid. The secondary engine only puts out > 1,350HP... > > http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com...