Car goes like a rocket, gets double the fuel economy

With engineering students at the University of California at Davis, Professor Frank has spent more than a decade turning production vehicles into plug-in hybrids using off-the-shelf parts. “We just built a high-performance plug-in hybrid Ford Explorer,” he says. “It’s 325 horsepower — 200 of that horsepower is electric and 125 is gasoline. This car goes like a rocket, but still gets double the fuel economy of a regular hybrid. And for the first 50 miles it is all electric — zero emissions.”

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