We're pressing on with battery research for plug-in hybrid vehicles that can be powered by electricity from a wall socket, instead of gasoline.
Austin, Texas, is leading a growing number of cities in calling for car companies to produce plug-in hybrid vehicles that can go hundreds of miles on a gallon of gas.
The two companies aim to help develop and deploy telematics applications on the Windows Azure platform, which includes Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure, starting with TMC's electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2012.
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China, America, Europe and the rest of the world must rapidly accelerate the pace of improvement in a whole suite of clean energy technologies, from nuclear and solar alike to plug-in hybrid vehicles, energy storage, and advanced biofuels.
Automakers and the fuel-supply industry are already dealing with a multitude of imperatives more fuel-efficient cars, more biofuels, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, pure electric vehicles.
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The company is hosting the EV Experience Tour to help other businesses and key stakeholders understand technical and business approaches for deploying pure electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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Some sort of climate and energy legislation will eventually emerge but first, the public and private sectors need to cooperate to invent, demonstrate, deploy and market the green batteries, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, advanced nuclear power, renewables and other technologies that are actually competitive with fossil fuels.
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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Even as I'm here today, Vice President Biden is in Delaware announcing the reopening of a once-shuttered GM factory that will soon put people back to work building plug-in, electric hybrid vehicles.
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Innovation in Detroit is focused on hybrid and plug-in vehicles and updating traditional consumer experiences in navigation, communication and entertainment.
The state has about 350 hydrogen fuel cells running around today, along with 34, 000 plug-in hybrid or all electric vehicles and 380, 000 conventional hybrids like the Toyota Prius, the air resources board said.
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Those looking to minimize their carbon footprints are able to choose among a growing number of part- and full-time electric vehicles like the new Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid and the Ford Focus Electric and Mitsubishi i.
Even more dramatic fuel savings can be achieved - both in terms of the costs and the consumption of foreign oil - if millions of Americans start driving not just fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles, but FFV-capable plug-in hybrids (PIH) with 500 mile-per-gallon-of-gasoline (mpgg) performance.
Michigan-based ALTe has developed a turn-key plug-in hybrid conversion for fleet and niche vehicles.
The growing smorgasbord in new car showrooms includes 43 hybrid-electric vehicles, four plug-in hybrids and 12 pure electric cars.
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Now it is moving into batteries for hybrid vehicles and future plug-in hybrids and all-electric cars.
While hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full electric cars largely remain niche vehicles, representing less than three percent of all vehicles sold nationally, 15 U.S. cities combine to account for nearly 30 percent of all hybrids and 41 percent of all electric vehicles on the road according to R.
The plug-in series hybrid avoids the entire chicken-and-egg problem of pure electric vehicles.
Automakers are scrambling to get lithium ion batteries into hybrid vehicles, and they are hoping these batteries will make plug-in hybrids and all-electric vehicles possible soon, too.
While hybrid vehicles have been widely available for more than a dozen years, the market for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has grown rapidly in the last 2 years, reaching more than 120, 000 unit sales worldwide in 2012.
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Joachim Schmidt, global head of sales and marketing for Mercedes, says until batteries get cheaper and lighter, Mercedes will respond to demand for exhaust-free cars (and California clean-car mandates) with small vehicles such as the tiny electric Smart and the compact B-Class, and offer plug-in hybrid versions of its larger models, including the S-class sedan.
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