Sales data shows that consumers have been showing more interest in plug-in hybrid and hybrid vehicles, over all-electric cars which have a limited driving range.
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Just plug in another floor, or scrap that project and plug in a 20-story condominium tower.
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The move is not uncommon, especially in the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry.
But the strain on a lithium-ion cell in a plug-in is much greater than on the batteries in today's hybrids.
In very related news, GM has struck a deal with Massachusetts-based battery developer A123 Systems to produce flat lithium-ion batteries for use in upcoming plug-in electric vehicles, such as the Chevy Volt.
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The Green Book, produced by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), says that in evaluating plug-in hybrids, it considers both the emissions from the gas engine and from the power plants that feed the grid.
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In green car news, Ford's new 2013 C-MAX plug-in hybrid was rated the most fuel-efficient plug-in hybrid available in the US this week.
Oh, what pleasure to plug in my three-pin British plug the other evening in Inner Mongolia, so very far from home.
If we get plug-in hybrid cars, you can plug it in at night and sell back electricity to the utility, and then charge up your car again in the morning before you leave.
Focus Electric, Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid and C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid all have an LED charge port that displays a circle of light directly related to battery life.
General Motors has found another use for them in the new plug-in Chevrolet Volt.
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If you have a particular route in mind, you can plug in its name as a starting point, searching for worthwhile stops along the way.
Foreign students who work in their spare time plug gaps in Australia's labour markets.
Indeed, Dr Wang tried that by switching an amino acid in the plug for a larger one.
In fact the total plug-in sales tripled from just over 17, 500 in 2011 to about 53, 000 in 2012.
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Neither does standard genetic engineering, in which some amino acids in the plug are swapped for other natural amino acids.
The National Union of Teachers said the funding was being used in many schools to plug holes in their budgets.
Since the launch of the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt, in late 2010, plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) have become more widely available.
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In theory a value investor could plug in high growth numbers and look out over the long-term just as well as a growth investor can.
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That site exploited a vulnerability in the Java browser plug-in.
The cape plug-in boards can be plugged into BeagleBone's two 46-pin dual-row expansion headers, providing similar headers so that up to four cape plug-in boards can be stacked at a time.
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Tim Urquhart of IHS Global Insight, a research firm, reckons that purely battery-powered cars will command only about 0.6% of world sales in 2020, with plug-in hybrids accounting for a further 0.7%.
What's more, the company says its also readying an all-electric version of the vehicle in addition to the plug-in hybrid model, with promising to last for around 120 miles before needing a recharge.
The competition is thickening on the plug-in front, with vehicles from Honda Fit EV, Nissan Leaf, CODA Sedan, Toyota RAV4 EV and Prius Plug-In making their appearance on showroom floors.
Creatively calling the plug-in boards "capes" in reference to the cape worn by a beloved cartoon beagle super hero, the active open source BeagleBoard.org community designed the plug-in boards to foster an even wider range of innovations such as robot motor drivers and sensors that measure location and pressure.
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The Toyota Prius Plug-in and Ford C-Max Energi plug-ins are both well reviewed and are in demand from consumers.
With a VESA mount, you can hang it in your bedroom and use Windows Media Center to pull in content from your main PC or even plug in a digital cable tuner and use it as a stand-alone entertainment system.
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So what was just an idea two decades ago is now rolling off assembly lines in cutting-edge fuel efficient cars that you can plug in at night.
It's a future in which renewable electricity is fueling plug-in hybrid cars and energy-efficient homes and businesses.
By spring GM aims to road test the batteries in prototype versions of its forthcoming plug-in, the Chevrolet Volt.
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