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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). told the Nikkei International Automotive Conference in Tokyo. This is unusual.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker is a good example. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". Notice in [link] that GM carefully avoids claiming to reduce CO2 by shifting to the grid, but leads people off the track by focusing on smog related issues. Many others are not so careful. Never again.

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