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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I if you really want to go for any alternative vehicle -- now that battery technology is so much better.

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