asimba2
Well-known member
Seeing more and more of this:
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the Plug in Prius as "an electric vehicle." When I search for "legal definition of electric vehicle" I get two main results, including:
(1) “a vehicle which is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries, fuel cells, or other portable sources of electrical current, and which may include a nonelectrical source of power designed to charge batteries and components thereof.”
...of which I would argue a Prius does not use its gas engine to charge batteries (like a Volt), rather it drives the car, and
(2) " “a vehicle that is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries or other portable electrical energy storage devices, provided that:
(a) Recharge energy must be drawn from a source off the vehicle, such as residential electric service; and
(b) The vehicle must comply with all provisions of the Zero Emission Vehicle definition found in 40 CFR 88.104-94(g).”
and the latter of which says:
(g) A light-duty vehicle or light-duty truck shall be certified as a ZEV if it is determined by engineering analysis that the vehicle satisfies the following conditions:
(a) The vehicle fuel system(s) must not contain either carbon or nitrogen compounds (including air) which, when burned, form any of the pollutants listed in Table A104-1 as exhaust emissions.
(b) All primary and auxiliary equipment and engines must have no emissions of any of the pollutants listed in Table A104-1.
(c) The vehicle fuel system(s) and any auxiliary engine(s) must have no evaporative emissions in use.
(d) Any auxiliary heater must not operate at ambient temperatures above 40 degrees Fahrenheit."
In the referred-to table are NMOG, CO, NOX, HCHO, and PM1, all of which the Prius emits (and so does the Volt).
In my mind, 11 miles of range MAX at 62 miles per hour MAX is not an electric vehicle and it doesn't seem to meet the legal requirements to be labeled as one. But I'm not good at legalese either. So...what am I missing?
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the Plug in Prius as "an electric vehicle." When I search for "legal definition of electric vehicle" I get two main results, including:
(1) “a vehicle which is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries, fuel cells, or other portable sources of electrical current, and which may include a nonelectrical source of power designed to charge batteries and components thereof.”
...of which I would argue a Prius does not use its gas engine to charge batteries (like a Volt), rather it drives the car, and
(2) " “a vehicle that is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries or other portable electrical energy storage devices, provided that:
(a) Recharge energy must be drawn from a source off the vehicle, such as residential electric service; and
(b) The vehicle must comply with all provisions of the Zero Emission Vehicle definition found in 40 CFR 88.104-94(g).”
and the latter of which says:
(g) A light-duty vehicle or light-duty truck shall be certified as a ZEV if it is determined by engineering analysis that the vehicle satisfies the following conditions:
(a) The vehicle fuel system(s) must not contain either carbon or nitrogen compounds (including air) which, when burned, form any of the pollutants listed in Table A104-1 as exhaust emissions.
(b) All primary and auxiliary equipment and engines must have no emissions of any of the pollutants listed in Table A104-1.
(c) The vehicle fuel system(s) and any auxiliary engine(s) must have no evaporative emissions in use.
(d) Any auxiliary heater must not operate at ambient temperatures above 40 degrees Fahrenheit."
In the referred-to table are NMOG, CO, NOX, HCHO, and PM1, all of which the Prius emits (and so does the Volt).
In my mind, 11 miles of range MAX at 62 miles per hour MAX is not an electric vehicle and it doesn't seem to meet the legal requirements to be labeled as one. But I'm not good at legalese either. So...what am I missing?