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Headline	Author	Published	Section
An electric plug Plug-in hybrid offers practical solution to peak oil	Joseph Romm	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Plug-in hybrids are the only alternative fuel vehicles that can provide genuine energy independence from steadily rising oil prices and brutal price spikes. I have agreed to participate as a guest blogger for ScienceBlogs in a three-month project on the next generation of energy ideas. My first post is 'Electric Vehicles: The Next Generation.' Longtime readers of this blog or my books know that I have been an advocate of plug-ins for a number of years. The key po ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids (all these topics)

The mpg illusion Gallons per mile: A better way to express fuel efficiency	Maywa Montenegro	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Let's say a pollster walks up to you and asks you the following question: 'A town maintains a fleet of vehicles for town employee use. It has two types of vehicles. Type A gets 15 miles per gallon. Type B gets 34 miles per gallon. The town has 100 Type A vehicles and 100 Type B vehicles. Each car in the fleet is driven 10,000 miles per year.' The town wants to replace these vehicles with corresponding hybrid models in order to to reduce gas consumption of th ...
Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids (all these topics)

Pragmatists v. environmentalists, part II Hybrid emissions: Facts and numbers	Vinod Khosla	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Having laid out my views in part I, let me turn to the actual data regarding hybrids -- both from an environmental and economic perspective. How do carbon emissions per mile driven compare for various cars? The Volt is expected to be 'less than $30,000' with a 1.0L engine. Compare this to the Corolla, with a 1.8Lengine (peak hp of 126; 31 mpg) and a price of $14,400. It's worth noting that this is in the optimistic, no-gasoline-use scenario for the Volt, ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids (all these topics)

Here to stay Why I don't agree with James Kunstler about peak oil and the 'end of suburbia'	Joseph Romm	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The remarkably low fueling cost of the best current hybrids (like the Toyota Prius) and future plug-in hybrids are major reasons I don't worry as much about peak oil as some do. James Kunstler, for instance, argues in his 2005 book The Long Emergency (see Rolling Stone excerpt here) that after oil production peaks, suburbia 'will become untenable' and 'we will have to say farewell to easy motoring.' In Rolling Stone, Kunstler writes, 'Suburbia will come to be reg ...
Topics: cars, fuel efficiency, energy, oil, hybrids (all these topics)

Discover Brilliant Q&A: Bill Williams of Zenn Motors A chat with Zenn about NEVs and EEstor	David Roberts	04 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I talked to a few people at Discover Brilliant. I'll be getting Q&As up over the coming weeks. Bill Williams is the California sales director for Zenn Motor Co., maker of neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs). In addition to selling one of the most full-featured NEVs, Zenn has an exclusive contract with a tight-lipped and somewhat mysterious company called EEstor. EEstor claims it's making an ultracapacitor that will so far outperform previous capacitors tha ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids, interview (all these topics)

Is the Chevy Volt just more GM greenwashing? Sure looks that way	Joseph Romm	29 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Back in May, I was seduced by GM's seeming sincerity in developing a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the Chevy Volt. We must always remember, however, that GM is a master greenwasher. An article in Edmunds, 'Chevrolet Volt Goes to Washington To Underline GM's Anti-CAFE-Increase Argument,' suggests GM is using the Volt the same way it used fuel cell cars to kill the electric car in California (as the movie explains): General Motors' North American operations chief, ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, greenwashing, hybrids (all these topics)

Plug-in hybrids rule; PHEV Hypercars rule even more Let's go all the way	Gar Lipow	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
When David pointed out that plug-in electric hybrids (PHEVs) can reduce carbon emissions in all possible futures, two main arguments were raised in opposition -- practicality, and the possibility that they will provide too low a reduction, while blocking the path to something better. The way commercial plug-ins look to be implemented within the next five years is that normal hybrids will be built with large batteries and the ability to plug into a socket in your d ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, hybrids, placemaking, tech (all these topics)

Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study		23 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study Plug-in hybrid vehicles, long extolled here at Grist HQ, seem always to elicit one question from doubters: Wouldn't running cars on electricity just mean more emissions from power plants? Answer: No! According to a ne ...
Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics)

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