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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Visionary Vehicles Team w/Malcolm Bricklin (who brought the Subaru and the Yugo to America) aims for luxury PHEV. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). This company is not stupid." ( NY Times Magazine ) 2/16/07 In an interview with BusinessWeek on Feb.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Never again.

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