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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Three members of the "automotive over-the-hill gang" beating the big companies to market with a 100-miles-per-gallon car.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It was a Manufacturing Failure, as GM NEVER planned to build the car in Volume, so No Economies of Scale were ever achieved. If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants".

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