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Prius and never drive more than
miles before
recharging the batteries you will never use any gasoline. If
you typically drive
to
miles before a recharge you
will do half on the batteries and half in the normal Prius
mode, but the
to
mpg of the standard mode will get you
miles per gallon as a PHEV (that does not account for
the primary energy used to generate the electricity).
There is no standard mpg for a PHEV
what you get
depends on your driving pattern. Of course you do have
to pay for the electricity.
If the batteries are good enough, the potential impact
on oil use in the light-vehicle transportation sector can be
huge.
Figures
-
.
and
.
show the potential.
100
80
Distribution of VMT
by Vehicles in the 2001
NHTS-Travel Day File
60
40
20
0
0
60
120
180
240
300
Daily Travel (miles per vehicle)
fig. 11.5
On the road. Percentage of sampled vehicle miles traveled
(VMT) as a function of daily travel. (Sources:[
]. Credit:
Argonne National Laboratory managed and operated by University
of Chicago Argonne, LLC, for the US Department of Energy
under Contract no. DE-AC
,
,
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CH
)
