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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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which hopes to sell cars here in three to five years, used the Detroit Auto Show to display a prototype sedan it says can run 60 miles on batteries developed in-house and another 190 miles on a gas/electric system. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Detroit Free Press ).

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