Living Green Magazine - Amory Lovins Leads Oregon Workshop on “Smart Garage” Concept: "A key factor in Smart Garage is the increasing development of fully electric and partially electrified vehicles, notably plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). “Vehicle start-ups are sprouting like mushrooms, and we haven’t seen this in years,” notes RMI Analyst Laura Schewel, who manages the Institute’s Smart Garage project. She lists new automakers such as ZEN, Miles EV, Fisker, Phoenix, Aptera, Vectrix, GEM, Zap, and Venture Vehicles—all of which came on the scene within the past few years, or even months—as evidence of what’s happening.
Companies such as Tesla Motors and Th!nk are already selling electric vehicles in small quantities, and Toyota and General Motors have both committed to having a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle for the U.S. market by 2011. Renault-Nissan recently announced the development of a mass-market electric vehicle in conjunction with Morgan Stanley-backed Project Better Place, a business based on revenues from charging the new vehicles.
A fleet of 500,000 PHEVs could reduce carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 40 million tons compared with the equivalent gasoline-powered vehicles over the ten-year life of the PHEV, RMI calculated last year."
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