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Navigant Research forecasts plug-ins will be 2.4% of global new vehicle sales by 2023; luxury brands to represent about 50% of that

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Navigant Research forecasts that plug-in EVs (which include plug-in hybrids and battery EVs), will represent 2.4% Accordingly, Navigant expects this luxury brand push to increase global sales of plug-in EVs significantly in the near term. Conventional hybrids (HEVs) and plug-ins (plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles).

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Navigant Research forecasts stop-start vehicles to account for 53.4% of global vehicle sales by 2022

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Growth in light duty SSV sales during the next decade will be predominately in the three major market regions of North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific, primarily because these regions are the most aggressive in their implementation of fuel economy and emissions regulations. Batteries Fuel Efficiency SSVs Vehicle Systems'

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Update on Nissan’s new front-engine, front-wheel drive hybrid system

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Previewed in the Green Program 2016 announcement in 2011 ( earlier post ) and outlined further in an advanced technology briefing in Oppama in October 2012, the FF-Hybrid system is intended to be adaptable to vehicles of any size, and support applications including all-wheel drive and plug-in hybrid configurations. —Owen Thunes.

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EVO Electric to Demonstrate Plug-in Hybrid Black Cab at Bridgestone Eco-Rally 2010; DuoDrive System with Axial Flux Motor

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a developer and manufacture of axial flux motors, hybrid drive trains and generator sets ( earlier post ), will demonstrate a plug-in hybrid version of the iconic London Black Cab featuring EVO’s DuoDrive system at the. The demonstrator uses a 5 kWh Li-ion battery pack from LiFeBATT, providing an electric range of 15 miles.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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The Vehicle Technologies Office Program Wide Selections will aim to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of plug-in electric, alternative fuel, and conventional vehicles through thirty-five projects addressing 11 areas of interest. Plug In America. The Department of the Army is contributing an additional $2.2 Description.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

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Hyundai began the US rollout of the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) ( earlier post ) and its conventional hybrid sibling (HEV) with a series of media drives in California—one of the main markets for the PHEV, which offers some 24 miles (38.6 Combined fuel economy (mpg). Earlier post.).

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Mixed Outlook for Mainstream Consumer Adoption of PHEVs

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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. Our history with alternative fuels has been truly awful.”

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