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Road Test: 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T Plus Plug-In Hybrid

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seconds MPG: 29 combined and 77 combined MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent, a measurement of how far a car can travel, electrically, on the same amount of energy as is contained in 1 gallon of gasoline) Efficient around town Clean Fleet Report drove the Hornet R/T Plus PHEV 157 miles through Southern California, averaging 31.8

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

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But it’ll be clean and fun, so this brand pivot makes a lot of sense. Brilliant advertising, ordinary vehicles and lack of corporate support and fresh product killed the brand, but it taught GM a lot. For our discussion, Saturn dealers were the delivery and service point for GM’s aborted first electric car, the EV1.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Establishing dealer network. Some of our engineers think we must go beyond lithium-ion," said Katsuaki Watanabe, president of the Toyota Motor Corporation, referring to what is now the leading battery technology for electric vehicles. ( 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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