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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. 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. This is unusual.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

cheaper (frame, electric motors, battery), lasts longer (less moving parts = less to break and maintain) and just a greater win, more future compatible too. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. because most of GMs profits comes from after market parts.

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