New report offers grim assessment of plug-in hybrids

Read the full story at Ars Technica.

The Chevy Volt and future models of the Toyota Prius will offer drivers the chance to avoid using gasoline for short trips. But a new report from the National Academies of Science indicates that they’ll need decades and billions of dollars in incentives to flourish unless gasoline prices rise above four dollars a gallon.

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Laura L. Barnes is a librarian at the Prairie Research Institute Library, embedded at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, and writes for Environmental News Bits.
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