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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Vice Chairman Bob Lutz in GMs FastLane blog ). Says demand and whether people will plug in remain to be proven. I got beaten down a number of times."

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