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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) This was starting to hurt because it was one reason for a sudden surge in Toyotas market share." I think that our No.

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EVs from these brands will soon use the Tesla NACS charge port

Baua Electric

Ford wasn’t the first to announce its allegiance to the Tesla port; that nod goes to California firm Aptera , which confirmed in November 2022 its three-wheeler would include only NACS. But Ford’s commitment was, for the auto industry, the turning point.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“The Toyota Prius took over five years to reach break-even and has gone on to be a wild success.&# Or if you don’t want to go into details, just compare the Volt to the Aptera :-) — James 15. The demand-is-everything argument is the cop-out line from the auto industry and our lovely government.

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