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Enter BMW — with Carbon Fiber

Revenge of the Electric Car

The first of several body styles is expected to be a four-seat, three-door hatchback, but they are likely to be smaller than subcompacts like the 2010 Honda Fit. All MegaCity cars will run solely on electricity stored in a 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack. Early tests. Early tests. Europe, and U.K.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

Luckily no one was really at Plug-In 2009 to hear the Three Car Stooges at this point, they don’t have any pleasant surprises in store for us. But what did surprise this reporter was the absence of Honda, Toyota, BYD, and a lot of the other players listed on the Plug-In America car tracker.

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