U.S. plug-in cars would cut greenhouse gases: report

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http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1932715620070720

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electric hybrid cars that consumers would recharge overnight could dramatically cut U.S. greenhouse emissions, a new report said.

Plug-in electric hybrid vehicles in the United States could cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 450 million tonnes per year, according to the report by environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council and industry research group Electric Power Research Institute.

That amount is the equivalent of removing 82.5 million, or about a third, of U.S. cars from the road, the report said.

Emissions-cutting technologies such as capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide would have to take root at power plants in order for the full global warming benefits of the cars to be realized, the report said.

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