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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable."

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