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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. The Omori factory currently produces NiMH cells.

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