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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In many areas of the country, overnight power is available at a lower cost. General Motors has announced its intention to mass-produce two PHEVs -- a Saturn VUE SUV, and the Chevy Volt, a series hybrid (where only the electric motor powers the wheels and the gasoline engine recharges the batteries). PHEVs are meant to plug-in at night.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia

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