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Calculating Fuel Savings from One Type of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV)
Taken from: An innovation and policy agenda for commercially competitive plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, DM Lemoine et al. 2008 Environ. Res. Lett. 3
See also: DRAFT-Economic Assessment of All-Electric Vehicles Posted February 6, 2009
Table 4 (below) explores the price conditions under which the decision to purchase a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) may be economical. With gasoline prices of $3/gallon and electricity prices of $0.10/kWh, compact car PHEVs with a 20 mile all-electric range may save $409 annually relative to a conventional vehicle (CV) and $202 annually relative to a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), which the vehicle purchaser may value at $2,126 and $1,048 respectively.
Download spreadsheet that generated this table.
| Gasoline price | $2 |
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| HEV | CV | HEV | CV | HEV | CV | ||
| Electricity price ($/kWh) | $0.05 | $155 | $294 | $264 | $471 | $373 | $649 |
| $0.10 | $93 | $231 | $202 | $409 | $311 | $587 | |
| $0.15 | $31 | $169 | $139 | $347 | $248 | $525 | |
| $0.20 | -$32 | $106 | $77 | $284 | $186 | $462 | |
| $0.25 | -$94 | $44 | $15 | $222 | $124 | $400 | |
| $0.30 | -$156 | -$18 | -$48 | $160 | $61 | $338 | |
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| Gasoline price | $2 |
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| HEV | CV | HEV | CV | HEV | CV | ||
| Electricity price ($/kWh) | $0.05 | $807 | $1,525 | $1,372 | $2,450 | $1,938 | $3,375 |
| $0.10 | $483 | $1,201 | $1,048 | $2,126 | $1,614 | $3,051 | |
| $0.15 | $159 | $877 | $724 | $1,802 | $1,290 | $2,727 | |
| $0.20 | -$165 | $553 | $400 | $1,478 | $966 | $2,403 | |
| $0.25 | -$489 | $229 | $77 | $1,154 | $642 | $2,079 | |
| $0.30 | -$813 | -$95 | -$247 | $830 | $318 | $1,755 | |
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| HEV | CV | HEV | CV | HEV | CV | ||
| Electricity price ($/kWh) | $0.05 | $277 | $298 | $472 | $479 | $666 | $660 |
| $0.10 | $166 | $235 | $360 | $416 | $555 | $597 | |
| $0.15 | $55 | $172 | $249 | $353 | $443 | $534 | |
| $0.20 | -$57 | $108 | $138 | $289 | $332 | $470 | |
| $0.25 | -$168 | $45 | $26 | $226 | $221 | $407 | |
| $0.30 | -$279 | -$19 | -$85 | $162 | $109 | $343 | |
For further work on how to value PHEVs and their batteries, see also the November 2008 issue of USAEE "Dialogue" published by the United States Association for Energy Economics.
