Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Darbee noted that although California has about 12% of the population, it has about 25% of the demand for plug-in hybrids. Berkeley will have a higher percentage than Fresno—it will not be unlikely for 3-5 PEVs to show up on one neighborhood circuit in Berkeley, overwhelming the local circuit, and leading to blackouts, he said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The cost of the shuttle was funded in part by the California Air Resource Board's Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP). The HVIP grant allowed the purchase of the batteries and electric powertrain, providing UCLA an electric shuttle for the same cost as its fossil-fuel counterparts.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mack’s first foray into electrification was in the 2000s, when it built a couple of diesel hybrid garbage trucks. The vehicles worked well, but the costs were high at that time, and the company decided that the technology wasn’t mature enough for full commercialization. That can extend your range by 20%, 30%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

I’m not against that and we should be exploring it but there are a lot of challenges—the primary one being the cost of these vehicles and there are infrastructure issues as well ,” cautioned Heywood. Examples of advanced powertrains are turbo charged gas engines, diesel and hybrid. CAFE (L/100km) (cars / trucks). 8.6 / 10.6.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. That circuit cost me about 400 bucks to have put in; it's in a garage, so they didn't need to go behind sheetrock. It makes no sense to me to own a gas-only car in 2030 or even just a plain hybrid.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. That circuit cost me about 400 bucks to have put in; it's in a garage, so they didn't need to go behind sheetrock. It makes no sense to me to own a gas-only car in 2030 or even just a plain hybrid.

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EV Life

MARCH 7, 2023

The Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) offers rebates of up to $7,500 toward the purchase or lease of eligible zero-emission vehicles, including electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles. Grants are given directly to the dealer to lower the overall cost of the qualifying vehicle.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 26, 2022

You have to drive through strange neighborhoods and try to locate chargers in vast parking lots where GPS is known to drop out of service. Based on our containerized hybrid power unit, these vehicle charging stations feature a mounted solar array on the roof of the container which charges the intelligent battery bank within.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. First of all he’s already gone where I want to go by installing solar, back in 2007. Already to date approximately 250 kW of projects have been installed. It’s a slam dunk.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. Earlier post.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Although charging infrastructure is beginning to find its way into cities, it may be awhile until they are available in residential neighborhoods en masse. A couple of drawbacks to consider might be the capitalization costs of building these stations and the batteries that they would have to have in stock.

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