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Clean Fleet Report
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Be careful listening to self-anointed experts that owning a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is not a wise choice or viable option when buying a new car. Those truly in the know have real world knowledge of why a PHEV is the perfect bridge between a gasoline-powered car and one propelled by only electricity.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 9, 2012
The lineup of alternate-drive vehicles and their premium price points just aren’t appealing enough to consumers to give the segment the momentum it once anticipated, especially given the growing strength of fuel economy among compact and midsize competitors. —Lacey Plache, Edmunds.com chief economist.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
Bubble chart of plausible mainstream PHEV buyers’ battery requirements (light and dark gray circles) and experts’s requirements overlaid on a Ragone plot of NiMH and Li-ion batteries. The Most Plausible Early Market consumers value fuel economy. A trajectory through time of PHEV designs allows good things to happen.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 21, 2024
As a result, less fuel is burnt, and the fuel economy improves. Instead, the batteries are recharged using a combination of gasoline engine power and energy collected during braking (also known as regenerative braking). PHEVs can run as electric vehicles in cities, significantly reducing tailpipe pollution.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 13, 2010
Two recent studies explore different aspects of the use, potential impact and valuation of PHEVs. A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. the electric range capability—of the PHEV. Axsen and Kurani.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 2, 2009
The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. Those enhancements include deeper cycling, longer life, elimination of sulfation and shedding on the negative plate, lighter weight, and easier more rapid recharging capabilities. City of Philadelphia. Advance Materials Corp.
Clean Fleet Report
JANUARY 4, 2024
Each family will be adding electric siblings, but at the end of 2023, LR and RR still has its wheels firmly planted in the internal combustion world with the plug-in hybrid (PHEV) its current furthest reach into electrification. This is the old school turbocharged and supercharger mild hybrid; you can find the PHEV review here.
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