Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle Technology

After a quick turn of a key, we drive our personal vehicles onto the nearest roadway and join a worldwide club that consumes 2.3 billion gallons of petroleum products per day for transportation. Can the world continue pumping this much oil into vehicles and the resulting carbon into the atmosphere? As early as 2007, the United States understood that this way of life is not sustainable, as reflected in President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address: "It's in our vital interest to diversify America's energy supply -- the way forward is through technology. We need to press on with battery research for plug-in and hybrid vehicles, and expand the use of clean diesel vehicles and biodiesel fuel. America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our lives less dependent on oil. And these technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change." Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Technology will develop the case for advanced vehicles that operate without fossil fuels and review the technology required to make low or no-carbon transportation possible. The second-half of the book will apply these concepts in the design and building of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and powering it with 100% renewable fuels. (Will you follow the included plans and build one too?) The result is a truly Zero-Carbon Car.