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New York Turn On

Plug In Partners

Turn on the Electric Road By DAVID MORRIS Published: October 8, 2006 Minneapolis LAST summer, New York State took a page from California’s playbook, using state policy to jump-start a 21st century automobile industry. They lay the foundation for an oil-free transportation system ; yet each technology suffers a key limitation.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) 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. This is unusual.

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