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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Establishing dealer network. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) 10/31/07 [General Motors Corp. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Then Ill pack it in around 80." Newsweek ).

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Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives

EV Adoption

To date, two manufacturers — Tesla and General Motors — saw the tax credit phaseout completely. The credit is not available for Tesla vehicles acquired after December 31, 2019 and General Motors EV purchased after March 31, 2020. But a minimum of 150-175 miles of range for BEVs could also make sense.

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GM on the brink…

Revenge of the Electric Car

or any other automaker would have far-reaching consequences, given the millions of people employed by supplier companies, dealers and other small businesses that are dependent on the industry. Ford and Chrysler have been lobbying hard in Washington for more help. But a bankruptcy by G.M. November 8, 2008. Cash Is Its Best Hope.

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