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PHEV Day 161 - Friday, 21 March 2009. From Vicksburg, MS to the 46th State Capitol - Little Rock, Arkansas

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Hwy 65 parallels somewhat in-land the Mississippi and goes over the flat, broad and green of first Louisiana into the flat, broad and green of Arkansas. The "Spirit" after a night of recharging at Motel 6 had these readings: 78.7MPG for 15 miles; 61.7 Traffic was light, but mainly slight some 200 miles! It was leisure travel!

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Lux: future use of wide bandgap materials in power electronics will reduce EV cost

Green Car Congress

Applied in an EV, WBG materials could cut electricity losses by 66% during vehicle battery recharging, the DOE says. However, for plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs), the threshold power savings needs to be a higher 5%. SiC ahead in road to commercialization. As just one example of government funding, the US DOE is contributing $1.8

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