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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Expected deposits in 2009 and first sales in CA in 2010.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Posted by: tons of | Apr 13, 2009 8:23:08 PM When Toyota first sold the Prius in the US, they were losing money on every sale. AND the Detroit car companies were laughing.

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Opinion: Biden’s Tesla snub shows that clout, not innovation, is driving the American EV revolution

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The Biden administration’s goals seemed good on paper, with the president announcing a national target of electric cars making up half of all new vehicle sales by 2030. “It was considered the worst workforce in the automobile industry in the United States. And it was a reputation that was well-earned.

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