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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. San Jose Mercury News ). People wont buy a full car. If that target is met, the largest U.S. Bloomberg News ). USA Today ) 6/23/06 "General Motors Corp.,

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