Hybrid

Current W:Hybrid vehicles (HEV) such as the Honda Insight, Toyota Prius, and W:other hybrid vehicles are unfortunately not W:Battery electric vehicles (BEV), as they can not use W:electricity as an external fuel source. Rather they are gas cars with some electric car tricks, but not the most important ability of not using gasoline as W:fuel. So such vehicles may prove to become the missing links in the History of transportation. The efficiency advantage of W:electric motors and W:batteries are diminished with the requirement of burning W:combustables with an onboard W:heat engine. Better it would be, to more fully utilize the W:waste heat from traditional local power W:cogeneration plants. With an eye towards W:wind, W:solar, and other W:sustainable resources which will make BEVs cleaner as they age. Rather than transitioning from gasoline current hybrids are merely a way to reduce (slightly) consumption of finite W:fossil fuels. It's the versatility of using traditional combustion and an array of electric fuel sources which makes Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) such an attractive solution which could be easily achieved today with off the shelf technologies. As the president said in his 2005 State of the Union address "America is addicted to oil", BEVs and PHEVs are critical to solutions capable of more than doubling transportation efficiency and eliminating vehicle CO2 emissions for most trips. Since currently no production PHEVs exist, Hybrid Conversions are modified production vehicles with larger batteries and chargers.

Hybrids can be classified as Series Hybrids like diesel locomotives, very heavy machinery, and EV's with pushers or on board generators; Parallel Hybrids such as the Honda's IMA; and Series-Parallel Hybrids like Toyota's HSD, Ford's Ford Hybrid System W:Ford Escape Hybrid, and General Motors and DaimlerChrysler's AHS2.

Current Production Hybrid include
Year	Make and Model	PHEV Versions
2000	Honda Insight	Insight PHEV ideas
2002	Honda Civic Hybrid	none yet
2005	Honda Accord Hybrid	none yet
2000	Toyota Prius	none yet
2004	Toyota Prius	Prius PHEV
2006	Toyota Camry Hybrid	none yet
2005	Toyota Highlander Hybrid	none yet
2005	Lexus RX 400h	none yet
2005	Ford Escape Hybrid	Escape PHEV Ford is talking about it!
2006	Mercury Mariner Hybrid	none yet
2006	Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid	maybe never, it's a Mild hybrid
2006	Lexus GS 450h	It's got the electric motor for it!

• Toyota Sales Michelle Vadeboncoeur

• Honda Sales

Prototype Hybrids:

• 2006 Honda CR-V Hybrid [1]

• 2007 Honda Fit Hybrid treehugger.com
  • EVDL - Low-cost hybrid version of Honda Fit subcompact car, Yahoo Prius-G2, Yahoo honda-hybrid

• 2006 Saturn Vue Hybrid [2] [3]

• 2007 Nissan Altima Hybrid - Details on the early 2007 Altima HEV launch are forthcoming Altima hybrid in ’07

• 2008 Lexus LS 600h

• 2008 Dodge Durango - Durango Slated for Hybrid, [4]

•  ? Azure Dynamics Corporation

• 2006 Detroit, Los Angeles Auto Show Index Hybrids

• PSA Peugeot Citroen Diesel Hybrid - by 2010
  • PSA Peugeot Citroen unveils diesel hybrid technology [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

•  ? Hino Hybrid Trucks - Tractor Trucks

• Designline Olymbus is a series hybrid with a 30kW gas turbine as the prime source. [12]

•  ? GM commuter buses [13]

• Volvo Hybrid truck article w/video

• DARPA 1993-1998, DOD 1999- HummVee Hybrid - evworld.com, HyHMMWV.pdf, army.mil, electrifyingtimes, mit.edu_fish2001a.pdf, google

• Hybrid HEMIT [14]

• Allison Transmission parallel hybrid system
  • Went into mass production in October 2003 with 400 systems on the road in the US and Canada.

Other Links

• WikiPedia:Hybrid vehicle - WikiPedia:List of hybrid vehicles
• http://www.greenhybrid.com
• http://www.hybridcenter.org
• http://www.hybrid-vehicles.net
• http://www.eere.energy.gov/cleancities
• http://www.ctts.nrel.gov/analysis/hev_test/data.shtml - Hybrid Electric Vehicle Testing (Insight and Prius)
• http://auto.howstuffworks.com/hybrid-car.htm
• hybrid engineering report pdf
• http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Hybrid_Vehicles
• http://www.hybridfest.com - Midwest Hybridfest 2006 - A Hybrid Electric Car Show and More!
• Hybrid Cost Calculators - [15] [16], [17]

• 2006.06.08 - Greenspan foresees inevitable shift to hybrid vehicles
• 2006.06.08 - Hybrid-vehicle team places second nationally
• 2006.06.08 - Will Buying a Hybrid Save You Money?
• 2006.06 - Batteries included: a new generation of hybrid cars
• 2006.06.06 - BCAA analysis reveals most hybrid vehicles offer long-term savings
• 2006.06.06 - Bosch, Getrag form hybrid systems alliance [18] [19]
• 2006.06.01 - The Hybrid Challenge Engineers are scrambling to drive down redundant costs.
• 2006.05.31 - pcmag.com - Hybrid Myths Debunked

Emergency Response Safety

• Honda
• Toyota Prius G1 Prius G2
• Ford [20]
• 2006.06.02 - Hybrid autos present unique dangers to rescuers
• 2006.05.29 - A scarlet 'H'?: Got a hybrid car? It may electrocute firefighters
• 2006.05.27 Rescuers training for electrical risks linked to hybrids
• LA County EV & Hybrid Vehicle Hazards
• Bad Press ( “At this point, it’s totally overemphasized as a hazard” )
  • Hybrid and BEV safety documents - for first responders.
  • http://www.auto123.com/en/info/news/news,view.spy?artid=24028&pg=1
  • priusonline.com
  • http://www.hybridcars.com/hybrids-fires-emergencies.html
  • More

News

The CalCars_Maillist: is a great resource for current news regarding PHEVs, visit the Official CalCars-News Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news.

See also:

• The Gridable_Maillist: or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gridable-hybrids
• The PriusPlus_Maillist: or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus
• Our EAA-PHEV_Maillist: or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eaa-phev

http://www.komotv.com/news/images/hybrid_sealion_011106.jpg

• January 11, 2006 - Sea Lion Gives New Hybrid Cars His Seal Of Approval video
• Hybrid Taxes uschamber.com
  • 2005.11.25 - Yahoo Prius-2G Chamber Suggests Taxing Hybrids and Billing Drivers By the Mile
  • 2005.11.26 - EVDL Extra TAX on High-Mileage Hybrids ?? WHAT !!
  • 2005.11.25 - mercurynews.com Report suggests taxing hybrids, billing drivers by mile

• 2005.08.23 - cnn.com Cars with electric appeal - Video

• 2005.08.23 - wusatv.com - Blast Columnist For Remarks On Emergency Crews, Hybrid Vehicles Y
  • In reference to Brock Yates, Hybrid issues, and a rising star at Indy.

• 2005.08.21 - delawareonline.com More drivers turning to hybrid options