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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet." In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In addition to the USPS, ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) will participate in the test program. Because robust grid integration is essential for widespread customer acceptance of electric vehicles, Chrysler has enlisted the involvement of key utility partners, including Duke, ConEd and DTE.

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