| Plug-in Hybrids brings you up-to-speed on the history of plug-in hybrids, a car that that will save drivers money, reduce pollution, and increase U.S. security by reducing dependence on imported oil. Whereas hydrogen fuel-cell
cars won't be ready for decades, the technology for plug-in hybrids
exists today. Unlike conventional hybrid cars which can't run without
gasoline, plug-in hybrids use gasoline or cheaper, cleaner, domestic
electricity - or both. Although not yet for sale, demand for plug-in
hybrids is widespread. Award-winning news reporter Sherry Boschert writes in an engaging and suspenseful style, including characters across the political
spectrum such as:
- Chelsea Sexton, the
automotive insider: working for General Motors, Sexton fought attempts
to destroy the all-electric EV1 car and describes how car companies are
resisting plug-in hybrids -- and why they'll make them anyway.
- Felix
Kramer and the tech squad: Kramer started a non-profit organization
using the Internet to tap into a small army of engineers who built the
first plug-in Prius hybrids.
- R. James Woolsey, former CIA
director and national security hawk: seeing the end of oil supplies
looming, Woolsey is demanding plug-in hybrids to wean us from petroleum.
Cautioning that the oil and auto companies know how to undermine the
success of plug-in car programs to protect their interests, the book
gives readers tools to ensure that plug-in hybrids get to market - and
stay here.
Praise for Plug-In Hybrids:
Sherry Boschert does a great job of showing how shifting to hybrid plug-in cars can sharply reduce gasoline use, dependence on imported oil, and carbon emissions. If we simultaneously build thousands of wind farms across the country, feeding cheap electricity into the grid, we can then run our cars on wind energy — and at a gasoline equivalent price of less than $1 per gallon.What are we waiting for?
— LESTER R. BROWN, President, Earth Policy Institute,
and author of Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress
and a Civilization in Trouble
This is an important book. As a historian I was intrigued by the history; as a reader I was charmed by the writing; as a citizen I was outraged by the auto industry’s duplicity. If you think your car should get a few more MPG (like 30 more!), plug into Plug-in Hybrids. It will recharge your political batteries.
— MARTIN SHERWIN, Pulitzer Prize winning author
of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of
J. Robert Oppenheimer, and professor of history,
Tufts University
Plug-in Hybrids is a must-read. If you are concerned about the environment, national security, or high gas prices, there is a solution and it’s contained in this book. But this isn’t simply a book about cars, it’s a book about our future. And our future
started to look brighter with every page I turned. I was riveted!
— ALEXANDRA PAUL, EV driver and actress
An informative, provocative, engaging book about a vital topic, Plug-in Hybrids is an important book for the 21st century.
— OCEAN ROBBINS, Founder and Director, Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!)
About the Author
Sherry Boschert has been an award-winning medical news
reporter in the San Francisco bureau of International Medical News
Group, a division of Elsevier, since 1991. A committed
environmentalist, the addition of solar panels to her roof led her to
buy an electric car and to co-founding the San Francisco Electric
Vehicle Association, of which she is President.
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