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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", See our frequent comments at our news archive. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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Will China win the electric car race? The Green Piece

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However, anyone who thinks that this is just another upstart company looking for its big break needs to re-evaluate – because it’s clear that China means business in the green car race. Of all the emerging Chinese auto manufacturers, BYD Auto appears best placed to emerge as a new super power in auto manufacturing.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. “It’s a very new way of doing things,&# said Gerard Magnin of Energie-Cites, a group of green local authorities. “You guys own the cars.&#

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Project Better Place plans to deploy a massive network of battery charging spots.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., The big problems now is how to create a battery that can charge rapidly and infrastructure to charge them.

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