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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

The taxpayer is financing the American automakers’ survival and their future. The plan calls for 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks and SUVs by 2016; no automaker lawsuits; and California subscribes to the national program through 2016. However, the power relationships have shifted somewhat.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It s Prius; Americans bought 205,790 of them last year. It had gobs of torque," he recalls. In June, U.C.