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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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By partnering with these two industries. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Well certainly be careful not to announce anything that we cannot deliver."

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Posted by: Greg | Apr 14, 2009 8:41:16 AM Most people forget that GM had a completely electric car in the 1990s that was called the EV1. The big deal was that the oil industry saw real competition and persuaded GM to abandon the project and crush them all like cans. GM would only lease them. Not one of them is on the road today.

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