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Lynd 31 (1:25)
Topic(s): Biofuels / Electric & Hybrid / Future
Transport
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Well, a dream car that could be realized in the relatively
near future would be a flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid. All
right? And the flexible-fuel piece meant that as
gasoline-compatible renewable fuels like ethanol become
available, I could use them, but if I was driving across the
country or something, I wouldn't have to get towed to the next
ethanol filling station if one were not available. So that's
awfully handy for the chicken-and-egg problem of the vehicles
and the fuel supply.
The plug-in hybrid would mean that in areas where it is
economically and environmentally beneficial to do so, I could
use— for short trips, I could take power from the grid
instead of fossil fuels, and I would have that degree of
flexibility. And the hybrid piece would mean that this car
used very little energy to make it drive, no matter what that
energy source was, whether it was gasoline, whether it was
ethanol, or whether it was whatever the power source for the
electricity was. And that's–
I predict you'll be able to buy such vehicles within 3 years.
That's not distant future. And frankly, if we got to the point
that substantial fractions of the vehicle fleet even had any
two of those three characteristics, we would really be moving
in the direction we need to go.
