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Book Description
A politically polarized America is coming together over a
new kind of car-the plug-in hybrid that will save drivers money, reduce
pollution, and increase US security by reducing dependence on imported oil.
Plug-in Hybrids points out that, where hydrogen fuel-cell
cars won't be ready for decades, the technology for plug-in hybrids exists
today. Unlike conventional hybrid cars that can't run without gasoline, plug-in
hybrids use gasoline or cheaper, cleaner, domestic electricity-or both. Although
plug-in hybrids are not yet for sale, demand for them is widespread, coming from
characters across the political spectrum, such as:
Chelsea Sexton, the automotive insider:
working for General Motors, Sexton fought attempts to destroy the all-electric
EV1 car and describes how car companies are resisting plug-in hybrids-and why
they'll make them -anyway.
Felix Kramer and the tech squad: Kramer
started a nonprofit organization using the Internet to tap into a small army of
engineers who built the first plug-in Prius hybrids.
R. James Woolsey, former CIA director and
national security hawk: seeing the end of oil supplies looming, Woolsey is
demanding plug-in hybrids to wean us from petroleum.
Cautioning that the oil and auto companies know how to undermine the success of
plug-in car programs to protect their interests, the book gives readers tools to
ensure that plug-in hybrids get to market-and stay here.
About the Author
Sherry Boschert has been an award-winning medical news reporter in
the San Francisco bureau of International Medical News Group, a division of
Elsevier, since 1991. A committed environmentalist, the addition of solar panels
to her roof led her to buy an electric car and to co-founding the San Francisco
Electric Vehicle Association, of which she is President.
Read more at the author's website:
www.sherryboschert.com
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