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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. Shiraishi said the two major challenges to introducing a hybrid is the current battery capacity, which has to improve significantly, and speed of recharging it. Reuters ). Watanabe said, noting that "the quality for mass production has to be ensured.

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