Plug-In Scam Blog
Plug-Ins Winding Down
October 22nd, 2012 | 3 Comments »There is more bleak news about plug-in cars, cars that are intended to run off electricity provided from the national grids. There are two types of plug-ins. One type is a battery only car referred to as a Battery Electric Vehicle or BEV. The second type is primarily powered by electricity but has an alternative [...]
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First Eighteen Months Sales of Volt and Leaf Plug-Ins
July 17th, 2012 | No Comments »The first shipments of the Pluggable Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Volt and the Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Leaf occurred in December 2010. Table 1 shows hybrid, BEV and PHEV sales for the first and second six month periods of 2011 (columns 2 and 4) as well as sales for the first six month period of [...]
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A Review of the April 2012 UCS EV Report
May 10th, 2012 | No Comments »In April, 2012 the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) published a report entitled “State of Charge: Electric Vehicles’ Global Warming Emissions and Fuel-Cost Savings across the United States”[1]. The report discussed the electrical generation and distribution system in this county, that is, the “grid”, relative to plug-in cars. Early on in the report the power [...]
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