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5 Results and Conclusions
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From page 33... ... At the Maximum Practical rate, as many as 40 million rapidly, especially at the cell level, but costs are still high, PHEVs could be on the road by 2030, but various factors and the potential for dramatic reductions appears lim- (e.g., high costs of batteries, modest gasoline savings, ited. Assembled battery packs currently cost about $1,250 limited availability of places to plug in, competition from other vehicles, and consumer resistance to plugging in to $1,700 per kWh of usable energy ($625 to $850/kWh of virtually every day) Read the entire page →
From page 34... ... It is not clear what technology or combination consumption would be reduced an additional 7 percent, of technologies -- batteries, hydrogen, or biofuels -- will while PHEV-40s could reduce consumption by 23 percent. be most effective in reducing the nation's oil dependency Employing HFCVs instead of PHEVs could eliminate gasoto levels that may be necessary in the long run. Read the entire page →

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... At the Maximum Practical rate, as many as 40 million rapidly, especially at the cell level, but costs are still high, PHEVs could be on the road by 2030, but various factors and the potential for dramatic reductions appears lim- (e.g., high costs of batteries, modest gasoline savings, ited. Assembled battery packs currently cost about $1,250 limited availability of places to plug in, competition from other vehicles, and consumer resistance to plugging in to $1,700 per kWh of usable energy ($625 to $850/kWh of virtually every day)

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... It is not clear what technology or combination consumption would be reduced an additional 7 percent, of technologies -- batteries, hydrogen, or biofuels -- will while PHEV-40s could reduce consumption by 23 percent. be most effective in reducing the nation's oil dependency Employing HFCVs instead of PHEVs could eliminate gasoto levels that may be necessary in the long run.

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5 Results and Conclusions Pages 33-34

5 Results and Conclusions
Pages 33-34