PHEV Industry Stats
DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - 2006
- The United States could meet the electrical needs of 73 percent of its light-duty vehicles with today's grid. This would offset the country's daily oil use by 6.5 million barrels, or nearly one-third.
- Switching to PHEVs would yield an average net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 27 percent per car. In California, which has the country cleanest electric-generation system, the figure would be 40 percent.
Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder - The Clean Tech Revolution - June 2007
- Studies by a number of agencies, including the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Argonne National Laboratory, and the California Air Resources Board have all concluded that running cars on electricity from today's U.S. power grid (that is, about 50% coal), instead of gas or diesel, reduces overall GHG emission anywhere from 22% to 61%.
Synovate Motoresearch - "Semi-Annual Survey of Customer Attitudes" - August 2006
- ...of the more than 3,000 consumers asked if they would consider buying a "grid-connected hybrid," 64 percent said that they would. This is well above the percentage of people who would consider buying an ordinary hybrid.
Xcel Energy and NREL Study - "Add Smart Grid to the PHEV Formula" - March 2007
- PHEVs, each equipped with a 9 kilowatt-hour battery, could reduce overall CO2 vehicles emissions by half. They could also save owners more than $450 in fuel costs each year compared to a traditional combustion engine vehicle.
Michael Kintner-Meyer, Kevin Schneider, Robert Pratt - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - "Impacts Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles on Electric Utilities and Regional U.S. Power Grids" - 2006
- The United States could meet the electrical needs of 73 percent of its light-duty vehicles with today's grid. This would offset the country's daily oil use by 6.5 million barrels, or nearly one-third.
- Switching to PHEVs would yield an average net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 27 percent per car. In California , which has the country cleanest electric-generation system, the figure would be 40 percent.
EPRI and NRDC study - “Plug-In Hybrids More than Hype,” American Assoc for the Advancement of Science – July 2007
- If car makers and the driving public embrace hybrid cars whose batteries can be charge from a wall socket, then by 2050 such "plug-in hybrids" will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by vehicles by more than 450 million tons per year--a third of today's vehicle emissions. That's the bottom line from a study conducted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the first to examine in detail the potential benefits of plug-in hybrids.
