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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. Congress should not pick [vehicle technology] winners—policymakers have a hard time being neutral. Source: Ken Kurani. Click to enlarge.

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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. The Omori factory currently produces NiMH cells. Green Car Congress ) 12/12/07 PHEVs face questions from people like Toyotas [spokesman Bill] Kwong about how environmentally friendly they really are and whether utilities can handle the extra electricity demand.

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