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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 ). Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. This is unusual.

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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. Fisker is a good example. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". Posted by: Mike99 | Apr 13, 2009 6:25:20 PM The EV1 was an engineering Success. Many others are not so careful.

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