Automobile Industry Battery Powered Detroit Fuel Economy 
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
which hopes to sell cars here in three to five years, used the Detroit Auto Show to display a prototype sedan it says can run 60 miles on batteries developed in-house and another 190 miles on a gas/electric system. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Lutz, who retired earlier this year, called the car Detroits "moon shot" and an attempt to wrest the mantle of innovation back from the Japanese. If no one wants your car (because people think it sucks), then no one will buy it, regardless of how good the fuel economy may or may not be. GM doesnt have a chance.
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