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Argonne Study Examines Impact of Real World Drive Cycles on Efficiency and Cost of Different PHEV Configurations

Green Car Congress

Aymeric Rousseau, program manager at Argonne, presented a small slice of this wide study at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC) this week in Long Beach. Here the controller drives as long as possible using battery energy, depleting the state of charge (SOC) from 90% to 30%. Load engine power strategy.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

If you’ve been wondering just how real the new Chevy Volt that gets 230 mpg in city driving is , well just take a look for yourself. Here’s what the brainiacs at General Motors sent the premier EV car conference on the West Coast. They even had a real plug connected to their toy car on the exhibit hall.

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