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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. in China they make electricity by burning coal, so China is not the place for electric cars," [Tatehito Ueda, a managing officer at Toyota Motor Corp.]

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