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National Research Council Study Finds That Available Technologies Can Result in Significant Fuel Savings for Passenger Vehicles Over the Next 15 Years, But at Higher Purchase Prices for Consumers
Diesel engines may become more popular in the United States now that new emission control technologies are allowing for a wide range of diesel engines to meet federal and state air quality standards, the report says. Engines and Technologies. Assessment of Technologies”. Assessment of Technologies”. Resources.
Green Car Congress - Friday, June 4, 2010
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Hybrid Cayenne S is Red Hot!
LA is the largest car market in the United States and the perfect location to show off a more eco-friendly Porsche. litre twin-supercharged V6 engine alongside a 52 horse electric motor, a 288 volt nickel metal hydride battery, all directed by an 8 speed automatic transmission. market. Reviews and Test Drives.
Hybrid SUV Blog - Saturday, December 12, 2009
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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online
The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short. Why does everybody state Tesla as US, When this is UK engineering from Norfolk in Great Britian?
business.timesonline.co.uk - Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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  • Brad Berman/HybridCars.com's Lithium Battery Report
    34; The current crop of hybrid cars, like the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid, use a combination of gasoline and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. Battery formulas with nickel, while more powerful than lead acid, have not provided the breakthrough and the long-term cost benefits that battery engineers had hoped.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Friday, January 6, 2006
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  • Has Buzz Overstated News of Toyota's PHEV Production Plans?
    We expect these vehicles, not necessarily Priuses, will be have better specs than the few Priuses Toyota has modified by adding a second nickel-metal hydride battery to achieve under 10 miles of all-electric range. HAS TOYOTA COMMITTED TO MASS PRODUCTION PHEVS? That's what we're trying to do. Panasonic EV Energy Co.,
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Friday, June 13, 2008
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  • Report Toyota Will Delay Lithium Battery Intro in Hybrids
    Toyota will instead use "more advanced" nickel-metal hydride batteries. Toyota had hoped the new battery technology would allow its engineers to halve the size of the current hybrid propulsion system using nickel-metal hydride batteries, thereby making the hybrid substantially cheaper and more fuel-efficient.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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  • Honda's Position on PHEVs Begins to Shift
    GM said the Volt will be outfitted with new lithium-ion battery packs, which hold a charge longer than the nickel metal hydride batteries now used widely in automobiles. Shiraishi said Honda also plans to introduce diesel engines in the United States by the end of 2009.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Monday, January 8, 2007
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  • Toyota First w/PHEVs in US & Japan--8 Mile Ni-MH Electric Range
    PHEV with "good enough" nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries. The vehicle, called Toyota Plug-in HV, displayed Wednesday runs on the same nickel metal hydride battery as the Prius and has a cruising range of 13 kilometers (8 miles) on electricity. We've been working for this moment since 2002.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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  • Toyota Plug In
    Lithium-ion batteries , now common in laptops, produce more power and are smaller than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrids now. more ) M eanwhile, in the United States, the political environment to support plug ins continues to grow. The list of attendees includes Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.); respond?
    Plug In Partners - Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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  • Hybrid Cayenne S is Red Hot!
    LA is the largest car market in the United States and the perfect location to show off a more eco-friendly Porsche. litre twin-supercharged V6 engine alongside a 52 horse electric motor, a 288 volt nickel metal hydride battery, all directed by an 8 speed automatic transmission. market. Reviews and Test Drives.
    Hybrid SUV Blog - Saturday, December 12, 2009
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  • Speculation Continues about Mitsubishi's EV/PHEV Plans
    plans to sell a small electric car in the United States. Lithium-ion batteries store twice the energy of similarly sized nickel-metal hydride batteries. Mitsubishi showed some electric vehicle concept cars in January with "Mitsubishi In-wheel motor Electric Vehicle" (MIEV). Zero Emissions. link].
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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  • DaimlerChrysler Reminds Us It's Building PHEVs Now
    19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than 20 Dodge Sprinter Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) will be placed in the United States between now and the first quarter of 2008 as part of a test fleet program. We've seen many news reports in the past week saying that PHEVs are a major topic of discussion in the auto industry.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Saturday, January 20, 2007
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  • Toyota's Press Release & Partial Specifics for its PHEV
    TMC plans to conduct public-road tests in Japan with eight units of the TOYOTA Plug-in HV to verify electric-motor-only cruising ranges and optimal battery capacity. There are also plans to conduct public-road tests of the TOYOTA Plug-in HV in the United States and in Europe. and Europe." About Toyota Motor Corporation.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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