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Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

Green Car Congress

China, for instance, wants to put 5 million plug-in hybrid-electric and fully electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, which could account for more than 40% of the global EV fleet that year. Car travel in non-OECD countries doubled between 1975 and 2000, but it then picked up pace by doubling again in just the decade to 2010.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

“There’s definitely change on the horizon,” said Sinclair, who is a member of both the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Women of Electric Vehicles (WEV) , as well as EV Gals, a smaller, Bay Area-only group. They just don’t realize how easy it is to drive electric. There are just a few important things that need to happen first.”