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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The biggest barrier is the battery." GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." San Jose Mercury News ). Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. If that target is met, the largest U.S.

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