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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said.

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