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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 He said he plans to discuss the idea with [Caroll] Shelby and [Lee] Iacocca. "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. But its ready now.

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