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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Batteries not ready.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

they only developed it because California forced them with the 0 emission law, and the MOMENT the car and oil lobbyist and lawyers were able to kill the car, GM recalled every EV1 and destroyed them. JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. GM never wanted the EV1 to succeed.

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