Electric cars face a critical year

Last updated Oct 14, 2010 — 2 views

“Next year will be critical for the future of plug-in vehicles” writes the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “In the next few months, Nissan will launch the Leaf electric car and rival General Motors will offer its Chevrolet Volt electric car with a gasoline engine backup system. Failure of any of the vehicles could be disastrous.”

” ‘This is a very unforgiving business,’ said Bob Purcell chairman and chief executive of Protean Electric, a Michigan company that is developing motors for electric cars and the former GM executive who led that company’s development of the EV1, a 1990s electric car leased to customers in California.”

” ‘The customer has a set of expectations of what a vehicle should do. If it doesn’t, you’ve lost them,’ Purcell said at the Center for Automotive Research’s Business of Plugging in Conference this week…”

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