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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). Kwong asked. What are we really doing and how big of a carbon footprint are we going to leave with this?" New York Times ) 10/22/07 ".in

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sure, if you need to make lots of long trips in a car, and can only afford to have one car, then probably a Tesla’s not for you. Or if you don’t want to go into details, just compare the Volt to the Aptera :-) — James 15. Where is affordable. How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead?

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