The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is currently conducting a long-term project to promote the development of grid-connected, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) for the commercial automotive market. This collaborative effort with partners in electric utilities, the automotive industry and government includes subtasks of specification development, prototype vehicle design and cons...

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. light-duty vehicle fleet. GHG emissions from PHEVs and other vehicles depend on both vehicle design and driver behavior. We pose a twice-differentiable, factorable mixed-integer nonlinear programming model utilizing vehicle physics simulation, battery degradation data, and U.S. driving d...

There are a number of societal motivations for the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs): reduced emissions, a more diverse mix of fuel types and sources, reducing the dependence on unstable regions with the greatest oil reserves, reducing petro-dollar funding of activities increased economic security fr a more assured continuity of supplies plus more balanced trade, and fuel price stabi...

To expand markets for plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) beyond enthusiastic early adopters, investments must be strategic. This research characterizes a segment of EV adoption that points the way toward mainstream: consumers with low or no initial interest in EVs, “EV Converts.” Logistic regression is utilized to profile Convert demographic, household, and regional characteristics; vehicle-transa...

Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles--known collectively as electric drive vehicles (EDVs)--may represent a clean and affordable option to meet growing U.S. light duty vehicle (LDV) demand. The goal of this study is 2-fold: identify the conditions under which EDVs achieve high LDV market penetration in the U.S. and quantify the associated change in CO2, SO2, and NOX emissions t...

The paper gives an economic assessment of Plug-In Hybrid cars. It analyses the impact of fuel prices and battery cost on their economic competitiveness and on the optimal electric driving range. To determine the proportion of electric driven kilometers to the overall kilometrage of the PHEV, data on average driving behavior of passenger car drivers in Austria is used. In a first step the total ...