Auto Plugins - Manufacture of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles, Cars

Plug-In Partners and AutoNation Join Forces to Support Manufacture of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles

Source: PR Newswire
[Oct 12, 2006]

Excerpts:

1. Next-generation batteries are significantly more powerful and can tolerate discharging and charging much more forgivingly than earlier versions.
2. America's largest automotive retailer, has joined the Plug-In Partners campaign calling on automakers to manufacture plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
3. These "hybrids would offer consumers a 50-mile all-electric range, get the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon, be fully recharged at night and deliver all the performance and comfort of traditional gasoline-powered vehicles without the damaging emissions..."
4. The Plug-In Partners campaign was launched in January 2006 by the City of Austin and Austin Energy. It has attracted nearly 60 cities and counties, including Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore and Phoenix
5."Next-generation batteries are significantly more powerful and can tolerate discharging and charging much more forgivingly than earlier versions..."

Full article here

Additional information about the campaign is available at http://www.pluginpartners.org.

Personalities mentioned: AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson; Austin Mayor Will Wynn

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