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On the Horizon

Plug In Partners

by ’10 By BILL VLASIC Published: May 13, 2008 DETROIT — The Nissan Motor Company plans to sell an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010, raising the stakes in the race to develop environmentally friendly vehicles. And by the end of the decade two more hybrids will join the Escape SUV in Ford's gasoline-electric lineup.

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Automotive Market Research Perspectives on Selling Green in a Try-to-Survive Market

Green Car Congress

United States. Miller of Synovate believes that in the US “ 20% of the people are willing to pay up to 10% of the vehicle’s purchase price more (i.e. ” [Note: In the first quarter of this year takes rates have been averaging around 8-12% for the Camry, Civic and Escape hybrid versions.]. Western Europe.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Andy Grove April 17, 2009: 9:30 AM ET The great electric car race High oil prices, green regs, and better batteries are behind the mad dash to create the ultimate electric automobile. Tags: evdriven.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

Cars That Think

The computer, and the office, of the future Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.” Steve Jobs and the escape of the Alto But in no way was the Alto the last—or the complete—word on personal computing. computing.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Now Lutz envisions selling hundreds of thousands of Volts a year, probably priced below $30,000. The target is to come in at the price of a midmarket car.

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