2015 Extended Range Gasoline Neighborhood 
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
roads by 2015? The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. GM calls the Volt an extended-range electric vehicle, or EREV. It is different from a plug-in hybrid, or PHEV, which runs on both battery power and gasoline. Five million. Two million.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
The PHEV does not require the heavy, costly batteries required by other electric cars, nor does it suffer from a limited range or poor freeway performance. Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars.
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