Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

They are usually delivery vehicles working within a neighborhood, and are on the road for 6-8 hour a day and are recharged overnight. The low energy characteristics could impede the use of iron phosphate systems in longer range plug-ins or electric vehicles. The Edison is a 3.5 ton 100 miles+ range van and the Newton is 7.5-12

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Li-ion Batteries Battery 2008 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

Utilities will face a host of new infrastructure requirements to support the increased power demand that will result from customers plugging in to recharge. While plug-in electric vehicles will not threaten the integrity of the power grid as a whole, they will have an immediate local impact on neighborhood distribution infrastructure.

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2015 2010 Standards Grid 210

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And yet, what about recharging? That means I'd have to recharge at least once. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. It has its own charging station to design its own plug design. Like a lot of people, I've been thinking about trading in my car.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 92

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And yet, what about recharging? That means I'd have to recharge at least once. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. It has its own charging station to design its own plug design. Like a lot of people, I've been thinking about trading in my car.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 90

EV Adoption

JUNE 12, 2022

While I was aware of this trend — I see it loud and clear in my own neighborhood — I hadn’t realized how wide-spread this trend actually was in the US. So if my math and estimates are close to correct, roughly 27 million households living in single-family homes cannot pull into their garage and plug in and charge an electric vehicle.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

We’re talking about the physical connector, but there’s also the communication side of things, the electronic handshaking routine that has to take place—when you plug this thing in, it’s got to acknowledge and say, Okay, I’m connected correctly, and then turn on the power. So those vehicles will probably go electric pretty quickly.

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Standards Market Volt Vehicles 73

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 21, 2021

The battery is charged through a plug-in port offering three basic charging speeds. 120V (typical household plug, Level 1) Adds two-to-three miles of range per hour 240V (Level 2) As little as 7.5 Driving around town, stuck in stop-and-go rush hour freeway traffic or coasting down hills will recharge the battery.

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Miles Charging All-Electric Range 80

Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

With my pal, Brad Bartz, of ABC Solar forcing the City of Torrance to back down and stop breaking the state solar rights law, With the growing numbers of electric cars and plug-in cars headed our way and the price of oil hitting $71 a barrel yesterday. ELECTRIC CARS ARE A CORE SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE - NO PLUG? NO PURCHASE!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Just as we have become accustomed to plugging in our cell phones everyday, the habit of plugging in your car after returning home could easily become second nature. The only time involved is the few seconds it takes to plug in and later, unplug, your car and possibly press a button.

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