Charging Ahead: The Case for Plug-In Hybrid Cars

Charging Ahead: The Case for Plug-In Hybrid Cars.

Featuring interviews recorded at the IEEE Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles: Accelerating Innovation Conference (2007) and the IEEE Energy 2030 Conference (2008).

Produced by IEEE and ScienCentral,Inc., with funding from IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE-USA, and the IEEE New Technology Directions Committee (NTDC).

Running time 10 minutes. Copyright 2009.

For additional information, visit: http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/emergingtech/index.jsp?techId=1161

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[heartlessvietboy]

How a Plug-in vehicle should work.

1. Offer 30 miles of electric range (with 100mph limitation) on a 60 mile battery pack. That will account for the first 5 years of 'no depletion', air conditioning and radio. To me, Driving a guaranteed 30 miles (minus terrain), really helps the human conscience. You are not driving on a dying battery.

2. Install a Permanent Magnetic Motor and an advanced on-board generator which could help you get a tremendous amount of electricity during driving.

[heartlessvietboy]

I don't think it was a cost we wanted to pay. We just drove. Neither is the American people "addicted" to foreign oil. Heck! It's not foreign. It's just oil!! And an addiction is something you can not control. We fill up because we need to go to work or school.

[Georgeqaws]

less than 40 miles on they annual commute. what about it we want to get groceries, pick up kids from school, take them to hockey. It just isn't good enough....

[nephil1977]

I think the combination of advanced lithium iron phosphate batteries for storage, and super or "ultra" capacitor banks for acceleration will prove this technology viable in a few years.

[Heimdall01]

Bearnurse: I can see a parking lot ,outside a condo building, with lots of electric sockets on small poles (like you see in the Scandinavian contries for engine heating!) The plug itself can be inside a small locker at those poles.

[MrGopher83]

If you're in a building with a parking complex then installing power outlets for each car bay is a trivial cost. A standard outlet is all that is needed for overnight charging. Only fast charging requires special equipment.

Weatherproofing is also a trivial technological hurdle to overcome for outdoor charging and a locking mechanism to stop 'pranksters' is also not a difficult concept.

[MrGopher83]

The batteries aren't that bad so a range of 100 miles can be achieved without a ridiculous mass of batteries - still costs a fair bit though. The problem with your solution is that the cost of such an infrastructure would be many times greater.

[bearnurse1]

Common sense says a 200 foot long extension cord is not practical for recharging a plug in hybrid at my condo. Picture a 10 story condo building at night, every condo with extension cord hanging out the window stretching to their car parked on the street. Whoever is walking on that sidewalk better be careful they don't trip over all the extension cords. I could see teenagers playing pranks unplugging peoples cars at night.

[amoringis]

All you need is common sense. Common man!

Common sense does not not have to go details.!

[bearnurse1]

you didn't say what the "very interesting answers" were.