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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 ). Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! This is unusual. The Toyota Prius convinced mainstream consumers on the merits of hybrids," J.

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