04-24-2005, 04:29 PM
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GreenHybrid Founder
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Real Name: Jason Siegel
Location: Houston, TX
Hybrids: 2004 Toyota Prius
Posts: 4,487
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Electric car aficionados favor a hybrid that you plug in overnight
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It seems like the best of both worlds, assuming one world is pure electric and the other is hybrid. It is called "plug-in hybrid," and it's the latest popular wrinkle among the alternative fuel cognoscenti. They're the folks who believe that ideally we should all be driving pure electric cars, but short of that, we should capitalize on the electric portion of a hybrid as much as possible.
In simple terms, what they have in mind is plugging in your hybrid to your home's electric power supply at night. The next morning, the first 10, 20 or even 60 miles would be driven solely on electricity, rather than the combination of electric motor and gas-powered engine that propels hybrids now on the market.
Car companies, with the exception of DaimlerChrysler, have been, if not cool, at least neutral on the subject of plug-ins. They're still concentrating on developing a fuller product line of the hybrids.
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- http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...NGDTCEA8H1.DTL
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