Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
> With today's technology, refueling a pure electric vehicle takes a major > chunk of time, and can only be done at certain locations. Refueling a hybrid > takes a few minutes and can be done at any gas station. In today's world, > this makes an enormous difference. > It does indeed. This is an important point. > A hypothetical PHV with a range of 150 miles could be driven from Boston to > California, and it would be only slightly less convenient than driving a > pure gas car with a range of 450 miles. You'd have to stop more often, but > that's all. Actually, this one will probably have the ~600 mile range of the regular Prius, or possibly more, because the extra batteries improve mileage in hybrid mode. Toyota has made some experimental PHV Prius's (or the plural Pri-ie as Rob Duncan says). They look the same as the regular ones so if this is the model they will sell, the gas tank will be about as big. A Prius converted to a PHV with a kit easily gets 100 mpg in hybrid mode. > A pure electric with a range of 300 miles, OTOH, would be a pure nightmare > to drive cross-country. > Like when H. Nelson Jackson drove across the U.S. in 1903 for the first time. It took 63 days. > On batteries alone the car has a range of 20 km, and when the batteries run >> out, the hybrid engine then powers the car. This exceeds the range of >> today's pure electric cars (which have a range of about 100 km), >> > > This looks like there's a clause missing. 20 km < 100 km and no other > range number was cited. It doesn't have the numbers. It just says the car "will exceed the range of a pure electric car (which is about 100 km) . . ." It also says this is more practical, which I see I left out. So it should say something like: "this is more practical and gives a greater range than . . ." That's a quick translation, as I said. It is probably in the English Yomiuri site by now. Ah, ha. Here it is: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20091206TDY05304.htm My translation is better, if I do say so myself. - Jed
