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CU-NREL Energy Institute Launches Study of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles in Boulder; 18 Prius PHVs

Green Car Congress

The Boulder location also presents the opportunity for researchers to monitor the performance of Toyota’s first-generation lithium-ion battery at high altitudes and in cold weather. A community blog on the field study will be hosted at cupluginhybrid.org. Tags: Hybrids Plug-ins Trials.

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Che Figata! Alfa Romeo Shows 2024 Lineup

The Truth About Cars

Finally, we have the Tonale, offered as a plug-in hybrid that tag teams a 1.3L kWh lithium-ion battery, it does have an all-electric range of about 30 miles, suitable for wide swaths of city-dwelling Americans whose commutes are well within that number. It also gets new lights and a new gauge cluster. Thanks to a 15.5-kWh

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Greenius On The Scene: Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

The Creative Greenius with the new Nissan Leaf flat lithium ion battery. They’ll be making Leafs in Tennessee and they will be making many more batteries than cars. The Nissan spokesman told me they will be selling the battery as a standalone product too.

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Super Charge It

Plug In Partners

T his has been a good week for new advanced battery announcements. Batteries , it can be argued, are much more energy-efficient, delivering as much as three times more power from the electricity grid to the wheels as fuel cell vehicles are able to.

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Easy as A123

Plug In Partners

P erhaps the most important milestone in developing Plug in Hybrids is the availability of an affordable, practical, and powerful battery pack. A123Systems produces Nanophoshate based lithium ion batteries with a combination of power density, durability and safety in excess of anything mass produced on the market today.

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GE and Nissan Get Into Smart Charging

Revenge of the Electric Car

In a blog post, GE scientist Matt Nielsen, who is taking the lead on the smart-charging research, said that GE and Nissan will seek to sort out which challenges are real and which are perceived by using computer simulations and gathering data. Tags: EV Chargers GE lithium-ion batteries Nissan.

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PIP Declares Victory

Plug In Partners

The operational technology has been perfected and the battery technology is maturing. The Chevy Volt , a plug-in electric car, will have the battery power to take most American drivers to and from work every day without using any gasoline at all. Tags: Plug in Partners. The fuel infrastructure is already in place.