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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Cleantech Group and Deloitte. advocacy group Plug In America.&#. Interest in electric cars is surging: •Nearly 52,000 people were wait-listed as of mid-April for General Motors’ electric model, the Volt, due in November. Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40. percent of $1.9 car’s introduction. .

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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GM China Sales Rise 38.0% in 1H09 to 814,442 Units

Green Car Congress

General Motors China and its joint ventures sold 814,442 vehicles in China in the first half of 2009. from the first six months of 2008. The market benefited from stimulus policies adopted by the Chinese government as well as growing demand for personal transportation in tier-three and tier-four cities and rural areas.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. The group pointed to a B.C.G. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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