Automakers Sing the Body Electric | Autopia from Wired.com: "The future of the automobile was sealed at North America's biggest auto show this week, where all of the hottest new cars and concepts had extension cords.
Any idea that ethanol or hydrogen will lead us past petroleum was tossed out the window, as the big automakers — hobbled by a brutal economy, gyrating oil prices and humiliating congressional tongue-lashings — limped into the Detroit auto show. They all put on a brave face with the hybrids and electric vehicles they promise to start putting on the road next year.
'They've finally gotten a little religion,' says Chelsea Sexton, an EV advocate who serves on the advisory board of Plug-In America. 'The auto industry is at the point where it has to invest in its future, and smart investors bet on the inevitable. Electric drive is inevitable.'"
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