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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium 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 Vice Chairman Bob Lutz in GMs FastLane blog ). I got beaten down a number of times."

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