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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Posted by: Joe | Apr 13, 2009 11:27:11 PM The government gets no tax money on electric vehicles. If GM can barely make a $40,000 electric vehicle with a 40-mile range *today*, how the hell would you expect the EV1 to have been affordable?

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