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Toyota Plug In

Plug In Partners

Here's the story from the LA Times: Toyota promises plug-in hybrid vehicle in U.S., Japan and Europe by 2010 By Yuri Kageyama, The Associated Press June 11, 2008 TOKYO -- Toyota is introducing a plug-in hybrid with next-generation lithium-ion batteries in the U.S., Event Summary Oil prices are at record highs.

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NYT Editorial

Plug In Partners

With the global oil market operating at close to zero excess capacity, oil prices are not coming down anytime soon. Beyond that, Ford should be putting more into developing plug-in hybrid vehicles , which can be plugged into the electricity grid, and a lot less into gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles.

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Nissan’s Big Gamble

Revenge of the Electric Car

They own the hybrid market and are doing quite well, thank you, so why adopt a whole new technology that’s untried on a large scale? Those who make the decisions to forgo battery EVs in favor of plug- in hybrids only ignore a sizable market. It’ll be mostly driven by the cost of gas. Of this I am certain.

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National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

Green Car Congress

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. In the cap-and-trade debate [in Washington] there was no real template, it was political from the beginning. We’re trying to avoid that.

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