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23 Oct '12, 5pm

Official: Colorado University finds Prius plug-in hybrids a hit; online assistance, not so much

Official: Colorado University finds Prius plug-in hybrids a hit; online assistance, not so much

Households manage plug-in hybrids without help from online tools, says CU-led study Households with plug-in hybrid vehicles, or PHVs, and smart meters actively managed how, when and where they charged their cars based on electricity rates but rarely took advantage of online feedback, a University of Colorado Boulder study found. CU-Boulder's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, or RASEI, today presented findings from the two-year study -- one of the only of its kind, combining both household and vehicle data in a smart-grid context. "Although households had access to online feedback on electricity use, we were surprised that most were not interested in using it to control their vehicle charging," said Barbara Farhar, principal investigator and senior research associate at RASEI. "However, households still actively managed their charging in other ways." The study was...

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