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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

Plugs and Cars

Or is lithium the new hydrogen? Asked why not Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the Volt, at least to start, he says "NiMH just doesn't do it." And is Lutz - purveyer of Hummers and Escalades - suggesting the environmental consequences of nickel mining are so great we must wait for lithium? This makes no sense. Does he mean it?

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