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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ).

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 I am a big proponent of unions but honestly, stop playing ball and just cut the pay of EVERYONE including your top execs and stop yourself from going out of business. Never again.

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