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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. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009. This is unusual.

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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. Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. "You dont get to skip Gen 1," Henderson said.

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