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VW Chief Executive Says Company Will Introduce EVs Based on the Up! New Small Family in 2013; Cautions Against Electro-Hype

Green Car Congress

With electromobility, the automobile industry faces a fundamental technological upheaval.Our path leads away from oil, to emission-free mobility, and the electric car plays a key role.CO What is the potential of renewable energy sources? And above all, we have attractive and environmentally friendly vehicles. Martin Winterkorn.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. I now understand that FUNCTIONALLY BANKRUPT General Motors is using "other money" to invest in Brazil, and not the government funds which it begged for in order to keep afloat.

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