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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." The biggest barrier is the battery."

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