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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

An Argonne researcher reached consensus with researchers from other national labs, universities, the Air Resources Board, automakers, utilities and AD Little to estimate in July 2002 that PHEVs using nighttime power reduce greenhouse gases by 46 to 61 percent. In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Once held on the Stanford University campus, “The chapter had a rally course in downtown Palo Alto,” Pohorsky recalled. “It An early advocate for green energy, he drove the car to Sacramento in 2003, stopping in Davis, California to charge overnight before testifying before the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca York University , Prius, Hymotion, November 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). Mauro Rampini, 2004 Prius by Rampini Mauro, using EAA-PHEV method with components from Plugin Supply , May 10, 2008 (Arluno, Italy, EU), contact solare.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. "I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. Reuters ).

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