Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

will sell a plug-in Toyota Prius after 2010, taking on the Chevrolet Volt, which goes on sale in November 2010. Battery-powered cars may be the wave of the future, but costs are high; the recharging infrastructure isn’t there, and hefty government subsidies are needed to make electric vehicles competitive. Oil vs. electrons.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Appraisal 2010 Prius Delivers Record Mileage and Accelerates. As part of the solution framework, the Israeli government will provide tax incentives to customers, Renault will supply the electric vehicles, and Project Better Place will construct and operate an Electric Recharge Grid across the entire country. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week.

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