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Top 5 Advantages of PHEVs – Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Have a hybrid, but thinking about taking it to the next level by converting it to a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle?

If so, then this blog post is for you since I’ll be covering the top 5 advantages you’ll get by converting your hybrid car to a PHEV. (The Toytota Prius tends to be the best vehicles for this conversion, btw.)

Not only is this conversion more environmentally friendly, it’s going to help you save some green in another sense – some cold hard cash.

So here they are the Top 5 Advantages of PHEVs

1) Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) can get 100 mpg.

That’s right, if you’re going to use your PHEV for trips like your daily commute and you’ll be driving it less than 50 miles per day, you can get your gas mileage up over 100mpg. For long road trips, it will be less, but since most people take short trips on a day to day basis, you’ll be consuming very little gasoline. Some days your gas engine may not even need to turn on at all – which means no gas consumption at all.

2) PHEVs Are Cleaner Than Gasoline Powered Cars

One thing skeptics like to say about plug-ins is that they’re simply transferring the pollution from cars to power plants. While it’s true that PHEVs are transferring the pollution, it’s not an equal tradeoff. Studies show that using electric power in a vehicle results in 67% less greenhouse gases than using gasoline in a car – even when considering that half the power in this country comes from coal. That’s because large powerplants are far more efficient and are far cleaner than a conventional internal combustion engine.

3) Get cleaner as they get older.

Only PHEVs and 100% electric vehicles actually get cleaner as they get older due to the fact that the electrical grid gets cleaner every decade. A typical gasoline powered car gets less efficient as time goes on and becomes dirtier as it gets older.

4) Cheaper To Run And Maintain

While PHEVs and electric vehicles (EVs) cost more money upfront, they are actually cheaper to run and maintain than a regular non hybrid car. For example, if gas is $3/gallon, the very best non hybrid cars will cost 8 cents per mile for gas and gas guzzlers will cost 20 cents or more per mile. A PHEV, on the other hand, will cost only 2-4 cents/mile during short trips. Or if you’d like another way to look at it, when running on the electric engine, you’re getting the equivalent of 75 cent/gallon gas.

5) PHEVs Reduce Dependency On Foreign Oil

Since PHEVs run on entirely on batteries until the gas engine is needed, they end up requiring substantially less gasoline to run, especially during your daily commute or when your’e running errands around town. The power that runs your car coming from the power grid doesn’t depend on foreign oil – only 3% of electricy in the United States comes from oil. (About half comes from coal of which the United States has plenty of.) It’s been estimated that if everyone drove PHEVs, we’d need 55% less oil and we could eliminate foreign oil completely.

7 No Brainer Ways To Save Money On Gas

With gas prices being so darn high, I thought it was time to provide everyone with a few no brainer tips for saving money on gas.
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How To Get 100mpg with a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle)

Today with gas prices being so high, I wanted to take some time to cover the idea of getting 100 miles per gallon, and explain how this is no longer a pipe dream and some of the options that are available to those who are serious about saving some serious cash when filling up at the pump.

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Getting A Gas Card Can Save You Hundreds

With gas prices being so high, it’s important to try to get gas prices as low as possible – at least to me it is.

One of the methods to saving money on gas that I think is a no brainer is to get yourself a gas credit card ASAP.

The good ones will give you 5% cashback on all your gasoline purchases so if you’re buying gas at $3/gallon, you’ll save $.15 on every gallon – so it really only costs you $2.85/gallon. If prices are $4/gallon – you save $.20 on every gallon – you get the picture.

The trick is to make sure you get a good card and that you pay off the balance every month.

Let me say that again – make sure you pay off the balance every month!

If you don’t, well all that money you saved when filling up your tank will be out the window once you start paying interest.

So what cards are good?

Good question.

Just about every gas station on the planet offers their own brand of credit card and you’ll get cashback on every gallon of gas you get with them. The problem is that some of these guys have gotten cheap and will only give you 3% back and they’ll only give you the cashback if you fill up at one of their stations. I don’t know about you, but if I need to fill up my tank, and I see a Shell station, I’d rather fill up there than drive clear across town to fill up at the Exxon Mobil station just so I can get my 5% back – wouldn’t you?

So what’s the solution?

Simple, get the card that will give you 5% cashback at EVERY gas station you fill up at AND give you 5% cashback on maintenance costs (like oil changes.)

So does a card like that exist? Fortunately, yes. But not many, possibly only one.

I’d recommend you get the Discover Open Road Card. It gives you 5% cashback on ALL gas fillups, no matter the brand, and there’s no annual fee – plus you even get a year of 0% interest, so if in that first year you don’t pay the balance off every month (but you should anyway), it won’t matter because there’s no interest.

This is one tip to saving hundreds of dollars in gas every year that everyone should use.

Click Here To Get The Discover Open Road Card – You won’t regret it – it’s probably the easiest way to start saving money on gas.

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