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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Persu Mobility (formerly VentureOne) 3-wheel Persu Hybrid PHEV-20 in development. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. I got beaten down a number of times."

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