Bright Automotive, best known for its 100-mpg IDEA plug-in utility van, announced a new $1.4 million contract with the U.S. Army to build a plug-in hybrid for non-combat use. The PHEV will be designed ...
... the partnership, with a three-year plan to develop and evaluate technical approaches for integrating PHEV s into the nation’s electric grid system, a key requirement to facilitate widespread adoption of ...
... up the new PHEV crossover, you won't need to do it nearly as often. While no official mileage numbers have been released, guesses are between 30 and 50 miles per gallon, depending on how often you plug ...
... evaluation of PHEV s and all-electric vehicles, electric charging infrastructure and EV-related education and training.
The highly-competitive grant program had 48 lucky winners spread across the country. ...
Toyota Motor Europe has announced that it will be leasing 150 of a new plug-in hybrid vehicle to fleet customers in Europe in a trial program. Beyond Europe, a total of 500 of the new vehicle will be ...
... city planning, efficient urban transportation and grid integration.
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $10 million grant to Ford's development of PHEV s. The DOE currently is road testing one ...
Toyota’s plug-in capable Prius is getting a big boost for testing, hitting the open road a year ahead of schedule. Several hundred of the PHEV s will be put into government and commercial fleets for ...
Toyota (Prius) and GM (the Volt and the Vue) seem to be in a race as to who will provide the first mass-produced plug-in-hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV ). The backfit market is building, with options coming ...
For people with garages (myself not included) there's a very simple way to charge your plug-in vehicle overnight. Unfortunately, day-time charging is likely to be a much more complicated affair. Even if ...
... of environmental pros and cons:
Pros:
PHEV s use less gasoline. Gasoline makes the world suck more.
PHEV s get greener as the grid gets greener
Power plants (which charge PHEV s) are ...
... that they aren't sure if average folks are up for the extra cost and responsibility that comes along with PHEV s, so they'll only be selling to governments and corporations for the first year.
So it looks ...
... would, in fact, run solely on electric power for the first 15 or so miles.
Up until last week or so, GM was nortoriously quiet on the PHEV Vue, but for the last few days, Rick Wagoner has been telling ...
Ford is getting busy with some of its hybrid technology of late. They recently handed off their first Escape Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV ) to Southern California Edison. It's part of a partnership the two are ...
... serial plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV ) would have me in line at the dealer (ready to take out, for the first time ever, a loan to buy a car). And the innovative interior and door design features ...
... by the
National Resources defense Council (NRDC) and the Electric Power
Research Institute (EPRI) addresses this question.
Among study’s key findings: Widespread adoption of PHEV s can reduce ...
Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, is putting some of it's gigantic pile of cash behind plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV s). Right now, their initiatives include hacking Toyota Prius and Ford ...
