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Toyota Plug In

Plug In Partners

Lithium-ion batteries , now common in laptops, produce more power and are smaller than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrids now. The list of attendees includes Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.); Such plug-in hybrids can run longer as an electric vehicle than regular hybrids, and are cleaner.

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Road Test: 2021 Toyota Sienna Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

In 313 miles of driving through Southern California we averaged 35.6 The nickel metal hydride battery is charged when applying the brakes or coasting. Using 87 octane fuel, the engine and transmission combination earned an EPA fuel economy rating of 36 mpg city/36 highway/36 combined. Your numbers may differ.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For a list of conversions completed to date, see Where PHEVs (mostly Priuses) Are. We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.) Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready.

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