Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car

TABLE 4-15: Incremental Prices for Series Hybrids

Battery

2005 (m) $4,420

2015 (m) $3,170

KEY: m = mean assumptions about new technology.

Storage Device

Ultracapacitor Flywheel

$9,730 $7,260

$8,300 $6,100

SOURCE: Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc.,“Automotive Technologies To Improve Fuel

Economy to 2015,” prepared for the Office of Technology Assessment, June 1995, p. 10-78.