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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. GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. The biggest barrier is the battery."

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