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Plug-in hybrids revisited

Posted on October 08, 2008

By Alan Durning In my post last fall on Rob Lowe's plug-in hybrid, I argued that in the absence of a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, switching to plug-in hybrids might actually be worse for the climate than just switching to regular hybrids. I no longer believe that. Electric vehicles are winners for the climate in the Northwest. My argument then, based on research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was that the marginal kilowatt-hour -- the extra electricity that's generated when consumption grows -- in Cascadia is usually from fossil fuels and, in the off-peak, middle-of-the-...

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