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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Paul Guzyk and Daniel Sherwood of 3Prong Power. 3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. After all, the primary goal of their Berkeley startup company, 3Prong Power, is to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Photograph by Chris Duffey.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. By partnering with these two industries. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I

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The French are coming. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

The eyes of the green car world, so regularly focused on Asia, Germany and the US, have finally taken more than a passing glance at one of the most historic auto industries in the world – that of France. Its first electric vehicle was the Peugeot 106 Electric, which was sold between 1995 and 2003.

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