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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plans Cadillac Converj, Opel Ampera, other versions. Vice Chairman Bob Lutz in GMs FastLane blog ). Toyota Open Road Blog ) 7/25/07 Toyota Motor Corp. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009. Red Herring ).

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success.

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