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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. See Chevy Volt for latest. Now Lutz envisions selling hundreds of thousands of Volts a year, probably priced below $30,000. I want to stick around to see the Volt come to market.

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Audi TechDay e-mobility, Part 2: systems and components

Green Car Congress

The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. With power drawn from the single-phase German household grid with its output of 230 volts, capacity extends up to 3.6 Standard charging by cable is the most obvious option.

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