Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

What can the auto industry do? Plug-in hybrids. From a new interview in Fortune and his new upcoming book, " Where Have all the Leaders Gone ?": I think they're virtually here now." Full Interview here : I don't think I could have said it better myself. I think we are going to be hearing lots on Lee and his book.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

But there it is in a Detroit News Autos Insider piece today. Just weeks after announcing production, perhaps, in 2010, the industry's hometown paper lets us know this is no done deal. The Volt grabbed headlines, lit up online chat boards and dominated the buzz at the auto show in Detroit. Last year, Ford Motor Co.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 4, 2008

OBAMA: Well, you know, I, I think that if we decided right now that we were going to make the kind of investment I've proposed--$150 billion over 10 years--then I think at the end of the decade we could have a auto industry that has significantly reduced our consumption of oil by as much as 35, 40 percent.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This quotation tells us all we need to know about what the auto industry would like the future to look like. As an industry they must oppose even the meager Congressional call for 35mpg by 2020. Were plug-in hybrids and electric cars added to the automakers' fleet mix they could achieve astounding CAFE standards.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Dan Kalb of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bonnie Holms-Gen of the Lung Association were there to lend their voices of protest against the auto industry's continuing legal assault on California. In a Prius or Civic Hybrid at 50mpg, the trip would have cost about $30 in gas, tolls and parking in Sacto.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2009

And these days a billion dollars is barely a rounding error in the money going to prop up the American auto industry. BYD already has a plug-in hybrid for sale in small numbers in China, and has Warren Buffet-infused plans to market PHEVs and EVs in the US within a few years.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 13, 2007

Big time neo-Con Frank Gaffney and Arnold supporter actor Rob Lowe took their advocacy for plug-in hybrids to Massachusetts liberal Democrat Ed Markey's House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming yesterday. Detroit and it's Congressional defenders are again suggesting that what's good for America will kill Big Auto.

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