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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

I think that’s fair since on a good day my 3 ½-year-old Chevrolet Volt has a 61-mile all-electric range, roughly comparable to a used Nissan Leaf or Fiat 500e. On top of that, I’m currently running at 80+% electric miles. Still turning in max EV miles. The number of EVs in my neighborhood seems to be growing weekly.

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SoCal Edison white paper shares data about PEV usage and charging

Green Car Congress

Because California leads the nation in EV adoption, other utilities and stakeholders in the auto industry may find the information from the white paper useful, SCE suggested. (SCE estimates that by 2020, there will be about 350,000 PEVs in its service territory.) kilowatts to 6.6 kilowatts or even higher).

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At Home with Bob Lutz

Revenge of the Electric Car

Bob didn’t emote too much over the state of the car industry and Detroit as a whole, but, surprisingly, his wife did. After our interview at the church, we did a drive through neighborhoods in eight, seven and six-mile roads, finding more people sitting on their porches as we moved down the numbers.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

Bright Automotive says it soon release an electric car with a 100 mile per gallon plus plug-in – and the company says it will keep the car economically priced. Bright Automotive, which spun out of the Rocky Mountain Institute in January, is building a plug-in hybrid vehicle that will get 100 miles a gallon (see Green Lightpost).

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. Earlier post.)]. Urban planning as part of the solution. Still, Prof.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Since some readers might read only one appendix, some information has been repeated.

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California announces it will ban the sale of New Gasoline Cars

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Auto industry analysts say the unprecedented move by California could help push the auto market to achieve that goal. Thirteen other states, including Oregon, New York and Colorado, typically follow California’s auto emissions standards, which are already the most stringent in the country.