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EIA: China promoting both fuel efficiency and alternative-fuel vehicles to curb growing oil use

Green Car Congress

million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2003 to more than 2 million bbl/d in 2013, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Under the Energy Saving and New Energy Vehicle Plan for 2012 to 2020 released in 2012, average passenger car fuel economy is targeted to increase to 34 miles per gallon (6.9

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). I got beaten down a number of times." This is unusual.

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