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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. This is unusual.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? 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". Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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