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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By 2020, [Masatami Takimoto, executive vice president in charge of powertrain development] said he expected hybrids to become the standard drivetrain and account for "100 percent" of Toyotas vehicles.He He said he plans to discuss the idea with [Caroll] Shelby and [Lee] Iacocca. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! We can do this.

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