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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Hyundai Partnering with Korean battery companies for hybrids. Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) Doubts PHEVs have environmental benefits. This is unusual.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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President Biden says his EV policies will result in “one million new jobs in the American automobile industry. Electric vehicles require new or re-tooled factories , each requiring thousands of employees. There are also concerns in Japan, or at least by Toyota, over the potential for job losses from the transition to EVs.

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