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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). “It very definitely opens a window of opportunity for us,” Lutz said of Toyota’s potential delay. It is definitely perceived as a negative… People see plugging in as a chore.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. Never again.

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