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Waterloo power management strategy greatly enhances durability of on-board fuel cells in FC-PHEV

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Canada), with a colleague in Sweden, have used a power management strategy greatly to extend the durability of onboard fuel cells in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle: an increase of 1.8, Architecture of FC-PHEVs with three fuel cell stacks as considered in the Zhang et al.

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CMU researchers find controlled charging of PHEVs can cut cost of integration into electricity system by 54-73%; higher benefits with wind power

Green Car Congress

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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Lux Research: despite cheap oil, niche plug-in vehicle sales will be resilient; conventional hybrids to be hardest hit

Green Car Congress

However, an analysis by Lux Research suggests that despite some decrease in sales, sales of plug-in vehicles will likely be resilient, and rebound as oil prices rise back to the prior higher levels over time. For car buyers, this plummeting oil index results is lower gasoline prices when refueling. Source: Lux Research.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Warranty: In performing some of these modifications you may void your warranty with the vehicles manufacturer. Current Hybrids are natural donor platforms because they already have most of the needed electric propulsion components, so the conversion process deals primarily with integrating larger battery packs.A

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Ignoring the briefly popular commercial electrics around at the turn of the last century, EVs have been experimental concepts or limited edition runs until relatively recently. Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. The hydrogen fuel cell in the FCEV acts to keep the battery charged, but can directly power the electric drive motor, similar to the function of a gasoline-powered range extender.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

His sermon is on how electric vehicles should be this country's salvation. "We It costs pennies to use electricity versus dollars for gasoline." Asher wants the United States to decrease its dependence on foreign oil and thinks these plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV's) are the way to do it.