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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. losing sales to fuel-efficient cars from Toyota Motor Corp., "People wont buy a full car. USA Today ) 6/23/06 "General Motors Corp.,

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. For a Western Interstate, Alternative Fuels Beckon Electric Cars: What if There’s a Blackout? Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. — AH2 14.

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