http://www.dailyindia.com/show/88923...ybrid-vehicles
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Toyota, the market leader, has already sold 4.35 million of the more-familiar hybrid cars in the US alone since 1999, including the Prius, which uses a gas-electric system that recharges the car's battery while braking.

But now, European and American carmakers, which overslept the trend set by Toyota while pursuing ideas such as hydrogen fuel cells and more efficient diesels, are also betting on the next generation of hybrid cars: a plug-in hybrid vehicle that can recharge at night in the garage.
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'It's a hype. One needs visionaries, but it comes to a time, you might want to hire engineers,' said Don Hillebrand, the Argonne National Laboratory's director of transportation research at the Electric Drive Transportation Association conference here. . . ."

I love an understatement. Of course this begs the question of having a hybrid to make into a 'plug-in'. So how far will today's Chyrsler and GM hybrids roll with the new plug-in configuration???

Bob Wilson