K-12 TLC Guide to Electricity and Cars

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Electric Cars	EV Challenge. Easy Breathers: Classroom Activities. Discussion Points. Newshour, PBS.

Electric Cars

Cars and the Environment: K-12 TLC Guide.

Deutsche Welle:

10/26/2010: All-Electric Audi A2 Completes 600 Km (372 mi) Drive From Munich to Berlin on a Single Charge

Easy Breathers.
Electric Auto Association.
Electric Cars that Pay, The Christian Science Monitor.
Electric Drive Transportation Association:

Encarta.
How Stuff Works:

How Electric Cars Work.

How Hybrid Cars Work.

IEEE Virtual Museum, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Lending Tree.
Middlebury College.
National Public Radio:
- The Charging Conundrum: How to Feed Electric Cars?
- Charging Stations for Electric Cars.
- An Electric Motorcycle.
- Electric Vehicle Companies Tap Silicon Valley Cash.
- How Green Is It?
- Hybrid Cars' Silence Just One Factor in High Pedestrian Death Rate.
- NUMMI.
- A Quarter-Mile in an Electric Ford Pinto.
- U.S. Weighs Grades for Car Fuel Economy.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory:

Public Radio International:

Electric Car Technology Coming Back Into Popularity.

A Student's Guide to Alternative Fuel Vehicles, California Energy Commission.
Thinkquest:

Electric Cars: A Look into the Future.
Fuels of the Future.
Green Cars of the Future:

How do they Work?
Pros and Cons.

U.S. Department of Energy:

What is a Hybrid Vehicle?

HEV Components.

The Why Files, University of Wisconsin.

Electric Cars

EV Challenge.
Easy Breathers:

Classroom Activities.
Discussion Points.

Newshour, PBS.

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This guide last edited 12/15/2010
This guide last revised 09/16/2008
This guide created 03/03/2006 on request from Ellen Logan, McKenzie School, Wilmette #39, IL