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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PHEV conversions are emerging at a frenzied rate (see the frequency of CalCars-News postings), to the point where its no longer feasible to track every instance of a PHEV. The advanced hybrid vehicle research center at University of California-Davis (founded and directed by the modern inventor of the PHEV, CalCars advisor Prof.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. Bloomberg News ).

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