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How to Maximize Benefits of PHEVs In Fleets

Green Fleet Magazine

This analysis shows the positive impacts of proper PHEV use, and the negative environmental and financial consequences if your drivers aren’t plugging them in. Plug-in hybrid vehicles can reduce fleets’ carbon emissions as well as range anxiety.

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Stellantis Recalls PHEVs Due to Fire Risk

Green Fleet Magazine

Over 30,000 hybrid SUVs have been recalled after a review of customer data discovered some vehicles caught fire while turned off and some while connected to chargers.

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Volkswagen Group receives 2015 KS Energy and Environment Prize for the Golf GTE and Audi A3 e-tron PHEVs

Green Car Congress

This was the eighth time the Volkswagen Group has won the tradition-rich KS Energy and Environment Prize for its brands. The plug-in hybrid offers a combined system power of 204 PS and fuel consumption of 1.5 liters gasoline per 100 km (157 mpg US) and electrical consumption of 11.4 kWh per 100 km.

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2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid powertrain named to Ward’s 10 Best Engines List

Green Car Congress

The powertrain of the 2016 Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) ( earlier post ) was named to Ward’s 10 Best Engines list. —Drew Winter, editor-in-chief, WardsAuto World magazine. This is the first time that a plug-in hybrid powertrain has made the list. The vehicle is powered by Hyundai’s 2.0-liter

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Dodge launches the EV “they” don’t want you to have

EV Central

READ MORE: 2024 Dodge EV muscle car to “tear up the streets, not the planet” READ MORE: Dodge Hornet buzzes in: PHEV performance SUV “unlocks gateway to Dodge muscle”. Another FYI, independent testing by Car and Driver magazine showed a 2023 Challenger SRT Hellcat hitting 60mph (97km/h) in 3.6

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ a) PHEVs with smaller battery packs and shorter electric ranges consume more liquid fuel than a PHEVLER needs to satisfy its annual driving needs. 3 ] PHEVLER - EAA-PHEV Wiki. [

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Norway leads the world in moving to EVs

EV Info

A recent report printed by the Norwegian Automobile Federation’s magazine, Motor , the downward trend in sales for ICE cars has been so consistent and steep that the last new ICE car to be sold in Norway could happen just seven months from now, in April 2022. 49 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Charging hybrid (B) 554 0.5 Cliff edge.

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