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Frank has spent more than 30 years in breakthrough vehicle development, during which he received two world records for vehicle fueleconomy, designed nine generations of PHEVs, and was a four-time winner of US DOE Advanced Vehicle Design competitions. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop.
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