Talk:Plug-in hybrid
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Google rechargeIT
[edit]Perhaps Google's rechargeIT project can be mentioned aswell (see http://www.google.org/recharge/)
"Over 100 mpg"
[edit]This is the caption of a Prius photo: The right side car is a Prius + converted by CalCars with a fuel economy of over 100 miles per gallon.
That is nonsense. The car got about 45-55 mpg on gasoline and it probably got abotu 3.5-4.5 mi/kWh (maybe 130 mpgE) on electricity. They obviously do not count the electricity, so I guess my Leaf got "over 100004300004329534850436805695 mpg." 95.49.91.137 (talk) 18:48, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry for the very late response, but as one of the people who built and advised others who build these early Prius PHEV Conversions. I can say they they very well did get over 100 MPGe efficiency, and your Leaf also did in fact get 114MPGe. So I'm not sure where exactly a claim of "one hundred octillion four septillion three hundred sextillion four quintillion three hundred twenty-nine quadrillion five hundred thirty-four trillion eight hundred fifty billion four hundred thirty-six million eight hundred five thousand six hundred ninety-five" is coming from. Please forgive me for not being able to resist replying to this nonsensical comment even though that caption and photo appear to no longer be present in the article... --D0li0 (talk) 02:50, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Proposal to merge Plug-in electric vehicle into Battery electric vehicle
[edit]If you are interested please discuss at Talk:Battery_electric_vehicle#Merger_proposal Chidgk1 (talk) 06:18, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Are there many PHEV lorries?
[edit]Or are Scania and Mack the only ones? I am curious if not why not? Because so many lorries where I live are old and dirty. I would prefer lorries to be clean when they drive through our city. If they were PHEV presumably they could only use their ICE outside cities? Chidgk1 (talk) 15:16, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Chidgk1. I don't think so. China is the only the country has developed and has a decent stock of heavy-duty plug-in vehicles, but mostly al fully electric buses, and some plug-in hybrid trucks for garbage collection. To the best of my knowledge the Chinese only exports the buses. Right now I think only the all-electric Tesla Semi is in development. Sure it makes sense to have heavy-duty PHEVs. Cheers.--Mariordo (talk) 17:56, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for quick reply Mariordo. I see there is a Hybrid electric truck article but it is very out of date as is Hybrid_electric_vehicle#Trucks. It seems that for cars and other light vehicles the question of whether electric, hybrid or hydrogen will dominate in the long run has been answered with "electric". But perhaps for lorries the question is still open? If so I think the economic and environmental aspects of the 3 types should be compared in one of the articles. Having said that I am not going to do it myself - maybe some thoughtful lorry driver will read this and take it on. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:18, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Chidgk1. I don't think so. China is the only the country has developed and has a decent stock of heavy-duty plug-in vehicles, but mostly al fully electric buses, and some plug-in hybrid trucks for garbage collection. To the best of my knowledge the Chinese only exports the buses. Right now I think only the all-electric Tesla Semi is in development. Sure it makes sense to have heavy-duty PHEVs. Cheers.--Mariordo (talk) 17:56, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Old references and wrong data
[edit]Even though this article has tons of good references, it is easy to point out that some of them are clearly outdated and need update. For instance, there are references to things that will happen by 2015 or that are expected to happen in 2022. These are, of course, studies that were trying to predict the future, but given that this future is already in the past, it would be very useful to see what actually happened in these cases.
Also, the paragraph stating that Nederlands was the first country where PHEV cars appeared at the top of the most sold cars in a month is confusing. In the same paragraph it is said that Nederlands was the second country where this happened, after Norway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laggarcia (talk • contribs) 01:54, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
- As an author of this article from over a decade ago, I appreciate the appreciation for old details and that they could benefit from some updates. I completely concur with your observations and wish I could commit more firmly to helping with such edits, perhaps with enough noise of edits I will find myself unable to resist returning to contribute once again. Sigh. --D0li0 (talk) 02:35, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
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