Automobile: Hybrid and Small

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July 17, 2008, 5:00PM EST

Honda Goes Whole Hog for Hybrids

To make up for lost time, the carmaker plans to sell 500,000 a year by early next decade

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb20080717_191924.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

July 17, 2008, 9:24AM EST

China’s Geely Has Global Auto Ambitions

With the automaker’s winning affordable-car formula under pressure at home, Chairman Li is pushing hard for a breakthrough on the world stage

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How Hybrid Cars Work

by Karim Nice and Julia Layton

Any vehicle that combines two or more sources of power that can directly or indirectly provide propulsion power is a hybrid. Most hybrid cars on the road right now are gasoline-electric hybrids…

Era of Electric Cars

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by Matt Vella

June 16, 2008, 12:32PM EST

The Electric Car Lives

Backed by U.S. venture capital, Norwegian company Think is betting its Ox concept vehicle can prove the electric car’s time has finally arrived

Clean, quiet, and relatively profitable to produce, electric vehicles have had a rough start in the U.S.: Five years after General Motors (GM) nixed its innovative EV1 electric car program, just a handful of automakers have committed to making and selling electric vehicles on a mass scale any time soon.