Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

NRC projections of number of PHEVs in the US light-duty fleet. Costs of light-duty plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are high—largely due to their lithium-ion batteries—and unlikely to drastically decrease in the near future, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). Click to enlarge.

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Plug-in Plug PHEV Hybrid 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

As one example of factors contributing to that decision, a survey of projected oil prices returned values between $30 and $250 a barrel, he said.). Referring to the PHEV/EV market, Anderman said: Lithium-ion is the preferred battery for a problematic market. By 2015, he suggests, full hybrids (e.g.,

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Li-ion 2011 Market Hybrid 150

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. After all, it takes someone who refers to his Prius as “the gas guzzler&# and his Culver City, Calif., In Who Killed the Electric Car?,

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EV1 Los Angeles Hydrogen GM 100