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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Lutz believes there will be rapid battery development over the next three to four years that will provide more energy storage. GM Press Release ). Detroit News ).

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. Studies estimate utilities might compensate car owners with $2,000-3,000 a year to "borrow" their storage capacity -- thereby helping to offset the incremental costs of plug-in hybrids. What do environmental groups think of PHEVs?

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