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Visitor remark: Automakers are lacking a chance to promote extra EVs to ladies

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In 2003, Volvo debuted the YCC, a automobile designed through and for girls. Saturn introduced a internet order referred to as “Novel Adventures” that featured 4 ladies in a retain membership interacting with a special Saturn in each episode. GM discontinued the Saturn logo two years then.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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He weathered years of business turmoil—mergers begun and abandoned, MCI’s acquisition by WorldCom, and finally a declaration of bankruptcy in 2003 and sale to Verizon in 2005. As senior vice president for data architecture he worked to help the company expand the Internet side of its business. Hi Eric, would you like some help?”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Plans Cadillac Converj, Opel Ampera, other versions. See Chevy Volt for latest.

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