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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 ). He said he plans to discuss the idea with [Caroll] Shelby and [Lee] Iacocca. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." I got beaten down a number of times." Bloomberg News ). But its ready now.

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