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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! Reuters ). The Toyota Prius convinced mainstream consumers on the merits of hybrids," J. said in a statement.

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