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South Australia Gets Its First PHEV Prius Conversion

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The announcement was made at the MTA’s new multimillion-dollar Heavy Vehicle Workshop at Royal Park in Adelaide. The vehicle can be charged in a garage overnight by plugging into a normal 240 volt outlet, enabling it to travel up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) on batteries alone before operating as a normal hybrid vehicle.

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ARB posts discussion draft of new proposed mobile-source emissions reduction strategy through 2030; Advanced Clean Cars 2 regulation

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This assessment, called the Cleaner Technologies and Fuels scenario, focused on the benefits of new technologies that would replace older vehicles in the fleet under what is predominately a natural turnover rate, coupled with increasing percentages of renewable fuels and energy sources, and reductions in the growth of vehicle miles travelled (VMT).

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Audi of America officially introduces the new A3 family; plug-in hybrid version coming in 2015

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It will be joined later in the fall of 2014 by the Audi A3 Cabriolet; A3 TDI clean diesel sedan; the high-performance S3 sedan; and in early 2015, the A3 Sportback e-tron gasoline electric plug-in hybrid (PHEV). Menge also announced that Volkswagen of America will add Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) to its lineup in the near future.

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Let My People Convert! - The A123 Challenge

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So he proposed at the California Air Resources Board ZEV workshop on Tuesday. Tuesday's workshop was not so different. But PHEVs are inherently the most complicated of all options. Les Goldman wants you to convert (your hybrid.) Easy as 123. An ARB ZEV meeting is ordinarily a predictable affair. Look it up.)

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Center for Automotive Research calls long-run economic risk to auto industry of mandating permanent fuel economy standards very serious; recommends periodic reviews

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The combined weighted cost of implementing each of these technologies provides an average per vehicle cost estimate for obtaining the higher mile per gallon. experienced a major shift to HEV and PHEV technology. Miles per gallon/cost per gallon is found on the bottom row. CAR proposes that workshops. The stretch case.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. We can achieve that -- today -- with a plug-in hybrid (PHEV). A PHEV is essentially a regular hybrid with an extension cord. But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution. What Are Plug-In Hybrids?

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Further Reporting Out on EVADC EVolunteering at the Teens Zone at the Green Festival in DC, 10-11 October 2009

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Cheers EVADC'rs, PHEV'rs, and EVnthusastists, One & All - Still catching up per Green Festival (as of Sunday, 1 Nov 09) where EVADC did have a black Prius PHEV with a solar trailer for showing at the Teens Zone. in the NEV MILES panel truck, while ensuring that Michael had enough charge for his EV. on the other side.

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