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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

Paradox 1 - Soot: There's an apparent emissions paradox with plug-in hybrids (PHEV): Driving longer distances on battery power means more cold starts as the internal combustion engine (ICE) stops and starts up again after the batteries deplete. Cold starts mean more pollution. What is possible? What is preferable?

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

lb) and within the battery system is mounted on a cooling plate through which cooling fluid circulates. prismatic cells—each of them about half the size of a paperback book—or long, flat pouch cells. Even then, these batteries still possess a large portion of their nominal capacity—too high for them to be recycled.

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