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PHEV drivers don't plug in so often, and EPA is adjusting to it

Green Car Reports

If plug-in hybrid drivers don't charge their vehicles often, they're effectively driving gasoline cars with added battery weight that doesn't necessarily help reduce emissions. As explained in an International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) blog post, a proposed EPA regulation released April 12 would.

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This Week in Batteries Blog from Berkeley Lab Scientist Venkat Srinivasan

Green Car Congress

Srinivasan works with a team of researchers at Berkeley Lab as part of the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies program. I will start the blog with a few generic postings to set the stage for what is possible with batteries.

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Alfa Officially States Mileage for Tonale PHEV

The Truth About Cars

kWh battery to belt out 285 horsepower and a system total 347 lb.-ft It is worth noting we’ve found through our own personal testing that some Stellantis PHEVs demand lighting the internal combustion fires in certain weather conditions even if the battery has ample charge, a trait worth keeping in mind if one lives in the snow belt.

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California PHEV Owners Return to Gas Power

The Truth About Cars

Yet 20 percent of California PHEV owners have gone back to gas-powered vehicles. Published in Nature Energy on April 26th by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, the study found that PHEV buyers in California were abandoning the technology at a rate of […].

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Toyota's EV Battery Production Efforts are Looking Up

The Truth About Cars

The Japanese auto giant recently announced its acquisition of Primearth EV Energy from Panasonic, which it said would give it a significant boost toward EV battery mass production. Some of the automaker’s other partially-owned companies already produce hybrid batteries, and some build PHEV and EV batteries.

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Tesla Model 3 maintains #1 spot in France after strong May performance

Teslarati

According to new figures from the EV Sales Blog , the mass-market sedan continued its strong performance in May, indicating an additional 2,111 Model 3s were registered last month. It has only been outsold by two battery electric vehicles (BEVs), Volkswagen’s ID.3 Credit: EV Sales Blog. Credit: EV Sales Blog.

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Ford CEO Farley Again Promises Profitable, Affordable EVs for the Masses

The Truth About Cars

He said the team is taking “a completely different approach” and noted that the new models will have smaller batteries with different chemistries. Farley believes that the best EVs in today’s world come from China, and he detailed Ford’s efforts to develop new battery tech to better compete with the country’s auto manufacturers.