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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 ). 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., I got beaten down a number of times."

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