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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Move over, cash for clunkers. lawmakers are supportive of the idea. Since batteries that power electric vehicles might last longer than the car itself, they say financing will have to be adjusted to reflect that. November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET. By Judith Burns. Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES.

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What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon. How the money would be distributed is yet to be decided but Hoon said it would be available only to people buying cars that ran entirely, or for the vast majority of their time, on electricity.