Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

A plug-in hybrid, one could say, simply integrates electric drive into a car with internal combustion. Even the Prius and Civic Hybrid are quite different. ARB could spend a year in conversation with stakeholders to figure out regs and credits for new OEM plug-in hybrid cars. However, there are innumerable ways to do it.

Convert 100

Convert Prius Plug-in Civic Hybrid 100

Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Dan Kalb of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bonnie Holms-Gen of the Lung Association were there to lend their voices of protest against the auto industry's continuing legal assault on California. It's about 90 miles from my house in San Francisco to the Capitol in Sacramento.) And I was there representing Plug In America.

Carbon 100

Carbon San Francisco Sacramento Cleaner 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But it works best if we use plug-in hybrids to power most of our miles electrically. We try to be careful to emphasize in the fine print that PHEVs can get over 100 miles/gallon of gasoline , PLUS electric costs of about 1-2 cents/mile. Otherwise well need more ethanol than we can make sustainably.

PHEV 37

PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37