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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption.

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