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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I 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. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." I got beaten down a number of times."

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