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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 San Jose Mercury News ). Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! "I The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." Bloomberg News ).

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