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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 ). “It very definitely opens a window of opportunity for us,” Lutz said of Toyota’s potential delay. Toyota is also concerned that plug-in owners might tire of connecting their cars every day.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". The EV1s failure was a failure of Management.

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