Source: NREL.gov
Fuel for our gas- or diesel-powered vehicles costs much more per mile than the power needed for an electric vehicle. Electric vehicles are also clean, quiet, largely independent of imported petroleum, and can be powered using wind generation or another source of renewable electricity.
A roadblock to success for electric vehicles has been their limited range. With hybrid-electric technology, however, that roadblock can now readily be overcome. Add extra batteries to a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and a way to “plug them in” and you can drive most of a typical day’s mileage on clean, less expensive electricity, but still have an easily refillable fuel tank for longer trips. Some HEVs have already been converted to plug-ins and Mercedes-Benz is now making limited numbers of a demonstration plug-in Sprinter van.
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