Changing a vehicle to Hybrid alone will give great fuel economy improvement. And don't under-estimate the smarts of people - if they can get cheaper driving by rolling out an extension cord and plugging in at 110V, which is plenty for a typical PIH, then there will me many people doing that!
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of EVDL Administrator via EV Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 10:19 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Electrifying Large Vehicles> converting buyers to ahigher mpge design On 15 Sep 2014 at 9:34, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > the full-size (puffy) truck or suv vehicle its self is what the buyer > wants, and that the pih model would be close to the same size and > passenger seating ... Now here is where my cynical side rebuts my optimistic side. :-\ I wonder if this wouldn't just end up much like the "flexible fuel" vehicles sold for the last several years. I think the automakers get some kind of CAFE credits for those (I don't know the details and it's OT anyway), but the number that ever get fed anything but gasoline is infinitesimal. Now suppose that with subsidies the big automakers could sell PIH trucks and SUVs cheaper than pure ICE trucks and SUVs. Of course they would; the dealers would clamor for it. BUT, I'll bet they wouldn't sell them as PIHs. The sales people would barely mention it, except to maybe tell the buyer "it's cheaper because you could plug it in if you wanted to." Many or most of these bargain-priced PIHs would go to people who had no interest in using the EV mode. Chances are good that even though they'd save money by plugging in, many of them wouldn't bother - especially if they had to have an EVSE installed in their garages (if they even had garages). I can see many of these PIHs running most or all of the time on gasoline, just like the "flexible fuel" vehicles do today. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
