sentences:  EPRI, along with a number of utilities and government agencies, worked with DaimlerChrysler to deliver 4 Sprinter PHEV vans to test fleets.In August, four companies - Raser Technologies, Maxwell Technologies, Electrovaya, and Pacific Gas and Electric - formed the Plug-In Hybrid Consortium to help reduce the research and design gap between component suppliers and OEMs and to accelerate the development of critical PHEV components.Since then, nine other component companies and three more utility companies, as well as CalCars and Plug In America, have joined the consortium.