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At U.S. automakers, hybrids are still “mostly concepts,” says Daniel Gross in Slate. But GM and Ford can still crack the Japanese-dominated hybrid market. There are other options for “earth-friendly autos” besides the Prius, says Mark Solheim in Kiplinger

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At U.S. automakers, hybrids are still “mostly concepts,” says Daniel Gross in Slate. But GM and Ford can still crack the Japanese-dominated hybrid market. Apple “crushed its competitors” with its iPod, just like Toyota has with its Prius, but the iPod has spawned its own aftermarket “entrepreneurial ecosystem.” U.S. tinkerers have come up innovations like a car battery that allows a 45 mpg hybrid to “get up to 125 mpg,” and U.S. automakers are taking notice. It may not be easy getting these concepts to work in the “real world on a mass scale,” but “that’s exactly what U.S. automakers said about hybrid vehicles themselves—1 million sales ago.”

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