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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We can also extrapolate some data from experience with the RAV4EV all-electric vehicles. Nickel-metal hydride batteries, proven for many years in hybrids to be safe, could go into PHEVs today -- they would be designed more like the ones Toyota put in its 2002 RAV4 EV compact all-electric SUV than like current hybrid batteries.

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