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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Or if you don’t want to go into details, just compare the Volt to the Aptera :-) — James 15. What I’ve heard is that Tesla Motors was able to R&d and produce a car that gets 300 miles per charge for the kind of money that the likes of GM spend on quarterly bonuses. It is completely falling apart.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The turning point came when tiny Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley start-up, announced in 2006 that it would produce a speedy electric sports car powered by those same laptop batteries. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I

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