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Electric Cars
General Motors has announced it will begin limited sales of electric cars in the fall. Does this signal a change in the automobile industry toward cleaner, more environmentally-favorable cars? In this hour we'll look at whether the electric vehicle is the wave of the future or will go the way of the turbine car and the Stanley Steamer?
Guests:
Jamie Phillips
Media and Research Director
Planning and Conservation League
Sacramento, CA
Bruce Zemke
Staff Development Engineer
General Motors Electric Vehicles
Detroit, MI
Karl Thideman
Director of Marketing
Solectria Corporation
Wilmington, MA
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