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...A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a hybrid vehicle with batteries that can be recharged by connecting a plug to an external electric power source. It shares the characteristics of both traditional hybrid electric vehicles (also called charge-maintaining hybrid electric vehicleshttp://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-2007-Riley-Enterprises-XR-3.htm), having an electric motor and an internal combustion engine; and of battery electric vehicles, also having a plug to connect to the electrical grid (it is a plug-in vehicle). Most PHEVs on the road today are passenger cars, but there are also PHEV versions of commercial vehicles and vans, utility trucks, buses, trains, motorcycles, scooters, and military vehicles. They are sometimes called grid-connected hybrids, gas-optional hybrids, or GO-HEVs. Read full entry
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What is a good historical What is a good historical
analogy for forecasting
the sales of plug-in hybrid
vehicles, which have yet to
reach the
market. Provide a short answer
that presents the analogy and
comment
on why you think this is a
good analogy. Comment on the
availability
of data.
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Lol, you must be in the same Econ class. Well I don't blame you for trying but this site is strictly for tweens discussing naive questions about sex and everybody else laughing at them. |
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Why are plug in hybrid Wouldn't plugging in a hybrid
to the electrical grid just
shift the carbon emissions
from cars to power plants?
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No. Electric cars are more efficient than gas cars. First off, only about half of our power comes from coal. The other half comes from natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, and renewables. These have low to no carbon emissions. Secondly, electric motors are far more efficient than internal combustion engines, so they simply use less energy, which means lower emissions. Studies have shown that even when most of the energy comes from coal power plants, EVs produce lower emissions than gas cars. Plug-in hybrids are similar to EVs in terms of emissions. Basically the more electric you get (from gas to hybrid to plug-in hybrid to fully electric), the lower the emissions. See the link below for further details. |
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Where can I buy an electric Gas prices are really too high
and I think we can't keep
using oil to power our cars.
Where can I find an electric
car or at least a plug-in
hybrid car?
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In all honesty, you can't. Sure there are a given few electric car companies making golf carts that have windows and can go 55, but the only company making a car worth a crap is Tesla Motors (teslamotors.com) it's an amazing car and is what we should see on the larger market but it starts at 100k. I give them credit though for at least selling it, Chevy will wave the Volt in front of us for years but I'd bet even money it'll never make it to production. Your best bet is to buy a Prius and have it modified after market. There are companies in place to do this sort of thing, but you may be driving to San Francisco to get it done. Personally I drive a 2006 Jetta TDI (Diesel) it gets better gas mileage than my parents Prius, and it only cost 2k to modify it to run on Vegetable Oil (compared to 10k to modify the prius), so I'm seeing 40-45 MPG on a grow-able fuel. Which is at least carbon neutral. (you have to grow something that breaths CO2 and releases Oxygen). I know it isn't great but honestly I feel better about my car on Bio Diesel because at least I don't depend on foreign oil, so I make the treehunger happen, the peace love people happy, and my wallet happy, Vegetable Oil is only $1.50 per gallon. |
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