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Tesla says Model S comes out on top in US-NCAP crash testing with lowest Vehicle Safety Score

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The Model S also earned the lowest combined total Vehicle Safety Score (VSS) achieved by any vehicle that has undergone that testing since 2011: 0.42. While the Model S is a sedan, it also exceeded the safety score of all SUVs and minivans, according to Tesla. Based on the data, Tesla said, it achieved a combined record of “5.4

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. No announced plans.

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