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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

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The company also announced in June that it will build electric family sized minivans, SUVs and fleet vans with DOE funding (see article ) and it has formed a partnership with Daimler to provide powertrain components for the electric Smart car. Fisker Automotive. The company hopes to begin selling the Fisker Karma in mid 2010 in Europe.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08.

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