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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

"The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." The turning point came when tiny Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley start-up, announced in 2006 that it would produce a speedy electric sports car powered by those same laptop batteries. I got beaten down a number of times." That tore it for me," says Lutz. This is unusual.

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". The EV1s failure was a failure of Management. Never again.

Volt

Volt GM Chevrolet EV1

EV Driven

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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

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