Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The 170-page report also finds that while the combined global EV and plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) market share is expected to grow to about 1.5% The 170-page report also finds that while the combined global EV and plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) market share is expected to grow to about 1.5%

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Popular Mechanics got a look and briefing on Toyota's own plug-in Prius. In a presentation, Asakura said the prototypes can operate on electric power for a range of about 7 miles." I hope someone tells Mr Asakura about the NiMH batteries Toyota used in the RAV4 EV. And they said it couldn't or wouldn't be done.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Plug-in Toyota Plug 100

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The current state of market readiness of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles presents serious challenges, particularly in mass production, given issues including range; cost; a charging time still longer than a conventional gasoline refueling; a broad variation in battery pack life, and the lack of infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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Plug-in Toyota 2015 Plug 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

A new report from Pike Research forecasts that sales of medium- and heavy-duty (MD/HD) hybrid trucks—including hybrid electric (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), battery electric (BEV), and plug-in electric power take-off (EPTO) variations—will surpass 100,000 vehicles annually by 2017. mile for diesel versus $0.60/mile

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2017 Nickel Metal Hydride Li-ion Sale 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The Vision S 500 Plug-in HYBRID Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz will present the Vision S 500 Plug-in HYBRID at the 63 rd IAA in Frankfurt. The concept vehicle has an all-electric range of up to 30 km (19 miles). The Vision S 500 Plug-in HYBRID accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.5 Click to enlarge.

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Plug-in Mercedes Plug Hybrid 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

According to a new report from Pike Research, a rapidly growing global market for electrified vehicles—particularly plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles—will create a Li-ion transportation battery industry with nearly $8 billion in sales worldwide by 2015, up from $878 million in 2010. Source: Pike Research.

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Lithium Ion 2015 Li-ion Electric Vehicles 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

In a paper published in the journal Transport Policy , Jonn Axsen, Ken Kurani and Andrew Burke explore two aspects of the “ purported problem ” in the context of starting a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs): performance goals, and the abilities of present and near-term battery chemistries to meet those goals. Units USABC MIT EPRI.

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Davis Commercial PHEV EPRI 210

Plugs and Cars

JUNE 21, 2007

Rainforest Action Network is prodding Toyota to add plugs to their hybrids. Google is spending oodles doing it to their cars, but the rest of us need the carmakers to produce the plug-in hybrids and electric cars we want. Of course, Toyota could do it today with larger NiMH battery packs.

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Toyota NiMH Plug-in Google 100

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The Prius c, like the v and the Plug-in, will add substantial incremental sales to Prius this year, with total family sales of about 220,000. Both the Prius c and the v will be about 15-20 percent of the mix, with the Plug-in around 5%. The NiMH pack in the Liftback is 201V.) The battery is warranted for 10 years/150,000 miles.

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Prius Hybrid Motors Motoring 356

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the 210 miles we put on the CUV, averaging 65 miles per hour traversing Southern California highways, we had an average of 41.5 The nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery is charged when applying the brakes or coasting. Your numbers may differ.

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Lexus Nickel Metal Hydride MPG Clean 78

Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

Interest in plug-in cars of all sorts is real and growing. billion taxpayer-funded effort, called the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), to build an 80-miles-per-gallon car. Tags: GM electric car plug-in hybrid chevy volt fuel cell. There's just one problem: The Volt may never get built.

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Volt GM Plug-in Plug 100

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

Asked why not Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the Volt, at least to start, he says "NiMH just doesn't do it." It would take more weight to reach 40 miles, he says. What's so sacrosanct about 40 miles? Interestingly, Lutz says GM is being approached by NiMH manufacturers to use this proven battery chemistry in the Volt.

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Volt NiMH EV1 Nickel Metal Hydride 100

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) constructed an optimization model to determine the optimal vehicle design and allocation of conventional, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles to drivers in order to minimize life cycle cost, petroleum consumption, and GHG emissions. Relative to our base case of $3.30/gal gal gasoline, $0.11/kW

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2009

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will begin leasing approximately 200 plug-in versions of its third-generation Prius ( earlier post ) equipped with lithium-ion battery packs in Japan starting at the end of this year. This brings the initial planned global deployment of early plug-ins—primarily to fleet customers—to approximately 500 units.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

Their Rechargeit.org campaign really makes the connections between renewable power and plug-in cars. The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123.

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NiMH Google Prius EPRI 100

Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 25, 2010

He's pretty plugged in, having worked at Tesla and consulted for CODA. The 100 mile range cited by Nissan uses "a number tied to the most optimistic benchmark, the LA4 cycle." The Honda EV+ used the same Panasonic EV-95 NiMH battery modules with an active system, and those packs didn't last as long. A fan circulates air.

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Nissan NiMH GM Volt 124

Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. It also spreads doubt about the enviro bona fides of plug-ins. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to offer solutions.

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Plug-in Plug Prius Highlander 100

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2007

With NiMH batteries - those that provide energy to every hybrid on the road and thousands of all-electric cars - the Volt plug-in hybrid could go into production today. Instead, GM says the batteries must be Lithium and must take the car 40 miles before the engine comes on. Although General Motors Corp.'s Write CARB.

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Volt NiMH GM Plug-in 100

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

During an international press event in Germany, in which more than 42 test drives were conducted with journalists in the Panamera S E-Hybrid ( earlier post ) covering a total distance of more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles), the new plug-in hybrid model consumed 4.4 Layout of the plug-in hybrid powertrain. l/100 km (53.4

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Porsche MPG Hybrid PHEV 273

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

MG 1 starts the gasoline engine and charges the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery, while MG2 drives the front wheels and regenerates the battery during braking and coasting, and MGR drives the rear wheels and also regenerates the battery. EV runs solely on electricity for about a half mile and/or only up-to 25 miles per hour.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Fuel economy for the 2022 UX 250h, which runs on 87 octane gasoline, is EPA rated at 41 mpg city/38 highway/39 combined, but in the Eco drive mode our time traversing Southern California highways covered 221 miles at an average of 42.7 The nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery is charged when applying the brakes or coasting.

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Lexus Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride Fuel Economy 81

Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota may be seen as the hybrid car king, but it has openly called into question the viability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. According to Michael O’Brien, the company’s US corporate manager, Toyota has key questions regarding market acceptance for the technology and who the target buyers might be.

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Plug-in Toyota Plug Lithium Ion 36

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. 2 Plug-in hybrids are cleaner 3 Plug-in hybrids are cheaper 4 Plug-in hybrids are domestic 5 Plug-in hybrids already exist 1. What Are Plug-In Hybrids? We can achieve that -- today -- with a plug-in hybrid (PHEV).

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Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid 61

Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I had a 30 mile commute to work… and there were no charging stations there.” But things changed for Cox when GM came out with a new version of the EV1 with a non-toxic nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery with more than twice the energy of the original lead acid battery. This doubled the range of the car and his problem was solved. “You

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EV1 Los Angeles Nickel Metal Hydride GM 77

Plug In Partners

JULY 18, 2008

O ften when I talk about Plug-Ins , I say that PHEV's are a perfect embodiment of the 80-20 rule. But in the case of the PHEV , the logic goes something like this: Roughly 80% of our daily trips are under 35 miles. The current absence of plug-in vehicles from America’s showrooms has been conveniently blamed on the batteries.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

The first cars will utilize NiMH batteries, as do the Toyota test platform Plug-in Priuses at the University of California. From where I sit (in the driver's seat of a NiMH powered Toyota RAV4 EV) this seems eminently practical. NiMH is the risk-free pathway.

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London G-Wiz i-MiEV Recharge 100

Plugs and Cars

JULY 14, 2007

Behind its green Teflon shield, the Lexus proved to be just another overstuffed sedan that can barely top 20 miles a gallon." The Volt remains a dream, and a new generation Prius (read plug-in) just have to wait for the perfect Lithium battery. Just because they say so.

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LS 600H Hydrogen Nickel Metal Hydride Green 100

Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

Now, to add some further complication, everyone's got religion on plug-in hybrids. A plug-in hybrid, one could say, simply integrates electric drive into a car with internal combustion. ARB could spend a year in conversation with stakeholders to figure out regs and credits for new OEM plug-in hybrid cars.

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Convert Prius Plug-in Civic Hybrid 100

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

Dividing that forecast in to application segments—micro-, mild-, full-, and plug-in hybrids; mini-electric (e.g., PHEVs (blended 10-mile strategy), extended range electric vehicles (40-mile AER) and full EVs begin to make economic sense when gasoline is at about $10/gallon US. PHEVs and EREVs require $7/gallon.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. See How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity. Pricing from $8-15,000 for installed low-speed EV range of 8-24 miles. We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready. This formed the basis for the EAA-PHEV project.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more.

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Nickel Metal Hydride EPRI Plug-in Austin 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. If youre interested in converting your Prius, see the information at How To Get a Plug-In Hybrid. You can see a general overview of PHEVs at All About Plug-In Hybrids (that page needs an update!). Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius.

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Prius Conversion Plug-in Plug 48

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The other two are the Prius Plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) and the Prius c.). The NiMH battery pack is the same as on the third-generation Prius liftback, but with a cooling duct located under the rear seat. In EV mode, the Prius v can run on battery power alone for short distances and lower speeds, up to about a mile.

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Prius MPG Sale Toyota 255

Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 27, 2008

The MINI’s range is said to be 150 miles. If you need a long distance car, you should be driving a plug-in hybrid. This is probably because, unlike NiMH batteries, LiIon doesn’t like being fully depleted or fully charged. This is exactly the distance I consider to be the sweet spot for an EV.

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BMW Mini E Electric Cars Cars 100

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

The NiMH battery module in the 2012 Camry Hybrid is more compact, with the air intake, junction box and service plug reconfigured to reduce footprint. The pack comprises 34 NiMH modules, each 7.2 The pack comprises 34 NiMH modules, each 7.2 miles at lower speeds (below approximately 25 mph/40 km/h).In ft to 13.1

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Fuel Economy Camry Hybrid Economy 2012 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

VW, Daimler subsidiary Daug and Varta developed a NimH battery in the early 90s, and the VW group put the Audi duo hybrid on the road in 1997. While in the past consumers tended to count horsepower and cylinders in the engine, they now are focusing more on fuel consumption and CO 2 values, he said.

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