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Ferrariā€™s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

seconds, breaking a seven-year-old record for production cars that had been set by the roughly $ 1 million Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid. Automakers are finding it difficult to challenge those boldface numbers with internal combustion alone, especially as engines are relentlessly downsized to meet regulations.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The potential is enormous because the current grid has sufficient energy capacity to supply every vehicle in the United States if every one of them was a PHEV. In fact, the optimized PHEV is much more efficient as a long range liquid fuel vehicle, because the engine is downsized. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish.

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