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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For people looking for the most effective way to end our addiction to oil, PHEVs have made sense because carmakers can build them now, with todays technology and using todays infrastructure. A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ). The GREET 1.6

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

To add a vehicle to this list, please use the following format for your description: Owners name | Vehicle type | Who converted it | Date operational | Location (City or Town or County/State/Country) | Contact info youd like us to make public. John Clinton, 2004 Prius+ PbA conversion, EAA-PHEV , January 2008, (Alexandria, VA).

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption.

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