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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 ). We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! "I I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. I got beaten down a number of times."

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