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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". Instead of investing in our future we dumped money on trying to save the past. Way to go morons. P.S. The Volt is not revolutionary.

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