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You appear to be correct about E-6. I had always seen it talked about in the context of solar installations and wrongly assumed it was only for...
To clarify a bit for non-PG&E readers, the E6 rate option is only an option for people with solar panels. It has tiers and Time Of Use pricing....
The EV-A rate is Time Of Use. A simple comparison against your present account usage is a good start at a comparison but the next step would be to...
In the same test cycle that takes 35 kWh per 100 miles for the Chevy Volt it takes the Prius Plugin 29 kWh per 100 miles plus 0.2 gallons of...
Here's my monthly OnStar email report that I received 2 days ago that is based on my 6 day a week 100+ mile roundtrip commute. As an aside, I just...
However gasoline is used to power 1/3 of the miles driven by all of the Volt on the road, according to OnStar's periodic PR updates. That tells me...
Interesting. I seem to recall that some old Honda Civic manual transmissions also used engine oil rather than ATF but did not share the same loop...
I would say that the HSD trades mechanical simplicity off against software control complexity. I think I recall reading that Ford had problems...
Fixed.
From time to time in various threads this question has come up: does the Prius have a transmission? Various people have asserted that it does not....
At the request of the OP, I have created a new thread for any further discussion on this topic. Does the Prius have a transmission? | PriusChat
EV or hybrid mode?
Right, that's the major point of the renewable energy portfolio law. Right now the Colorado grid only needs to have 12% essentially zero-carbon...
See the following link for a table of the acceleration differences between EV mode and hybrid mode with the gas engine helping out. It also has a...
The Volt has 3 clutches in its planetary gear transmission that enable it to mechanically switch between series hybrid and a power-split...
Yes, the top speed is the same for both EV and with the gas engine on. The only difference is performance. Acceleration in EV mode is good above...
Speaking of silly diversions, whenever John cranks up his sales pitch for needs-not-wants, mainstream, and the evils of grossly oversized battery...
I find that using fossil fuels is always anticlimatic. ;)
Fifty miles one way and only charging at home would be a round-trip of 100 miles. That's more like the point where the Volt and PiP break even...
Brilliant idea! It's called "sub metering" and there have been regulatory discussions about it. Here's info from a CPUC workshop in 2011. I...
