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PHEVs don't sell by little things like that alone. Mitsubishi has been dragging out importing the outlander to america for a long time, while bmw...
I would portray that stuff as rumor mill, not bmw official. BMW may be pausing some phevs for minor redesigns. Note BMW, The...
Yes, they seem to be promising something that technically is tough We don't really know how big the micro hybrid lithium battery will be. They...
Yikes. sounds like a similar system to the $295 ford start stop system. That does great on nedc cycle but doesn't improve things much on epa...
Very small packs like that in the prime might be better air cooled, but get much bigger and today's battery prices say liquid ;-) unless...
77 is japanese jc08 for gen III prius, 96 mpg is for gen IV prius on this test. 68.7 is 37.5% above epa 5 cycle fuel economy. The gen IV eco...
Well yes of course there is a preference in connector for 150 KW. CCS. Chademo peaked at 62.5 KW when those were designed. In that diagram the...
The CCS group is trying to extablish a standard for up to 1000V. The Porsche chargers are 800V, but can also do lower voltages. A battery pack...
Air cooled large battery packs have more expensive battery cells. Today's technology likely makes a 60 kwh air cooled battery pack more...
The rumor is the 60 kwh leaf will use liquid cooled ncm 811 cells which are smaller and less expensive (they may be as heavy) than those in the...
Here is an oldy from when legislation passed. It has the gen III not gen IV prius. The gen III prius gets 68.7 mpg cafe and needs 47.5 in 2021...
To the engineering part of your note - Larger packs will add more weight. 60 kwh liquid cooled pack with cooling will be much heavier than the...
rumor link is above in my previous post. A rumor that it will use NCM 811 battery cells which would be liquid conditioned. Production of the new...
About 10% of the US light vehicle market is California. It is a high proportion of plug-ins right now, but that is likely short lived as plug-ins...
Some lobbyist, including CARB chief Marry Nichols got hydrogen day passed, and Perry did a photo op for them. When Chu stood up to them, he had...
I hope you are right. I believe CARB has been anti-science for at least 20 years, and the EPA for even longer. The DOE is probably the proper...
Well porsche tried to buy vw, and vw ate porsche, let's not tarnish the good people over at porsche working on plug-ins with the vw group diesel...
Hybrids without a plug are much better than they were a decade ago, but seem to have a low ceiling of adoption. 495,771 hybrids were sold in...
You do realize that carb was only granted the waiver to do fuel economy in 2009. The waiver and CARB politics had nothing to do with things in...
Can't we boo both of them ;=) Pruit, tool of the oil industry, and Carb for making rules that make new cars unnecessarily expensive. Well its...
