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This chapter summarizes the alternative vehicle petroleum consumption findings from this book. We analyze the petroleum consumption for all US alternative vehicles and fuels for two time periods similar to the greenhouse gas periods covered in Chap. 8: (1) A near-term “Business-as-usual” condition through 2020, and (2) A longer-term assessment over the twenty-first century. Our goal is to reduce oil consumption to a level that all oil imports can be supplied by non-OPEC nations and preferably by friendly nations from the Americas.
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These petroleum consumption values are based on the LDV-weighted marginal electricity grid mixes that will affect the PHEV oil consumption; petroleum consumption will be slightly less using the average grid mixes for BEVs and PHEVs (see Appendix D for details on marginal vs. average electricity mixes).
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As shown in Chap. 11, natural gas hybrids (NG HEVs) reduce oil consumption more than FCEVs with our assumption of relatively rapid deployment of NG HEVs, but NG HEVs would increase urban air pollution health costs and could not meet our GHG reduction targets.
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Thomas, C.E.(. (2015). Projected Oil Consumption for Alternative Vehicles. In: Sustainable Transportation Options for the 21st Century and Beyond. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16832-6_9
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