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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. Honda has probably sold more Civics in a year than the combined total of all 18 of those GM models. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Interesting in any case.

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