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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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1 ] The average daily driving distance in the USA is 30 miles (48 km), so PHEVLERs are vehicles with at least 60 miles (97 km) of electric range. At present PHEVLERs, PHEVs and conventional gasoline engine vehicles in the USA all use a liquid fuel blend comprising 90% gasoline and 10% biofuel. MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. The PRT as an automated taxi that is 4m long by 1.4m Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J., Kasseris, E.,

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