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GM will do "heavy lifting" toward plug-in goal [w/POLL]

- It's going to be awfully tough to hit President Obama's stated goal of one million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015. After all, that's just over five years away and there aren't actually any affordable plug-in-capable vehicles available as of today from a major automaker that meet the basic requirements of the average American household. This is slowly changing, but the clock is ticking. General Motors plans to do its part to make Obama's lofty objective a reality. Speaking to Reuters, Britta Gross, director of global energy ... Read more →

Toyota: Plug-in Prius returning 65 mpg in testing Jeremy Korzeniewski

GM will do "heavy lifting" toward plug-in goal [w/POLL] 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Toyota: Plug-in Prius returning 65 mpg in testing 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

According to Toyota, its plug-in Prius hybrids are averaging 65 miles per gallon in real world testing. This is an improvement of 15 mpg over the recently-unveiled 2010 Prius. The secret to the big fuel mileage increase is a battery with the capacity to store much more energy than the unit in the ...

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