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PHEV Day 159 - Wednesday, 19 March 2009. In Mississippi - 45th State and the STATE Where Toyota Will Do Prius Productions, Hopefully Prius PHEVs

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Lorianne also got a handful of PHEV/EV literature for creating a vertical file for library users and a look-see at Sherry Boschert's book: Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that will recharge America as well as Gary Kendall' WWF-funded book: PLUGGED IN: The End of the Oil Age. Note: WWF = World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

In May 2008, Toyota saw its Prius hybrid car turn it towards profitability in America and it scrapped plans to build a sport utility truck plant in Tupelo, Mississippi and chose to build a Prius plant there instead. Yet when gas prices tumbled later that year, plans for the Prius plant were shelved.