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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A free car on a four-year plan in France is another idea mentioned by Shai Agassi, CEO of Project Better Place. Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans. Pre-paid 600 kilometer cards are one approach that is suggested.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

When most of America will be reluctant to buy a GM car because the company might go bankrupt how the hell did those in charge think bailing them out was a good idea? I like the idea that I can take to the Hwy I can do better than 330 miles on a 10 gallon tank. This is true, irrespective of the merits of the Volt.

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