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Toyota Hot and Cold on Plug-in Hybrids

Plugs and Cars

As if to confirm that notion, recently a Toyota spokesman in DC was denigrating plug-in hybrids as Hymotion/A123 and Rob Lowe were making a plug-in splash in Congressman Ed Markey's global warming committee. After all, grid electricity is cleaner and cheaper than gasoline.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid. Once electric cars are more common, demand for electricity will rise, and electricity producers will have to look at big generators such as dams, nuclear stations or decentralised wind turbines that feed in to the grid.