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The 60,000 Volt Question

Plug In Partners

"If they were able to get 30,000 to 60,000 on the road in a year, it would be a huge leap in technology ," Brett Smith, an alternative-fuel analyst at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, told Bloomberg. "It Toyota sold 5,562 Prius models in 2000, when it was on the market for part of the year.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. tons of carbon dioxide. "Their cars are way behind Toyota, for sure," Sokol admits.

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