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MetroMPG · 03-05-2012, 04:22 PM

Sales of EV's are not exactly on fire, are they?

It will be interesting to see what happens as we exit the winter sales doldrums and fuel prices continue to climb again.

On the other hand, I also wonder how many years GM & Nissan will be willing to keep working on an idea that clearly isn't paying off very quickly, the way Toyota did with the 1st generation Prius.

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