The PH&EV Research Center has partnered with the Toyota Research Institute to examine the role PEV usage can play in GHG reductions. Building on a previous analysis by Toyota that looked at the GHG emissions of various PHEVs under different charging and driving conditions, the PH&EV Center is adding additional scenarios with more vehicles and a greater variety of driving behaviors in order to determine whether GHG emissions can be reduced significantly by changing behavior during travel rather than travel patterns themselves. Further analysis will explore whether there is a correlation between modeled greenhouse gases and sociodemographic and spatial variables of households, such as location and travel diaries.
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