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Mixed Outlook for Mainstream Consumer Adoption of PHEVs

Green Car Congress

Bubble chart of plausible mainstream PHEV buyers’ battery requirements (light and dark gray circles) and experts’s requirements overlaid on a Ragone plot of NiMH and Li-ion batteries. It allows more consumers to buy some electric driving sooner, and thus to experience and form value for electric driving. Tax the fuel.”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. USA Today ) 7/27/06 Ford would not sell a plug-in hybrid unless it could guarantee that the battery would last as long as current hybrid batteries do, said [Mike Tamor, executive for hybrid and fuel cell research at Ford]. People wont buy a full car.

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