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What is in the pipeline for plug-ins?

Plug-in electric vehicles are on their way with new innovations seemingly announced all the time. It can be difficult to keep track with what is and isn’t out there, with most still years away from hitting the roads, and so now one company has catalogued the field.

Plug In America has created a new website dedicated to keeping track of plug-ins, whether they are hybrids or pure electric vehicles. It currently lists 47 cars and trucks, 11 two- and three-wheelers, and nine commercial trucks and buses.

Some of the vehicles listed are questionable. An electric Rolls Royce Phantom for example, was only mentioned by the company’s executives last year because they are said to be considering adapting the same technology used in the MINI E.

Indeed others probably shouldn’t be there at all with the NICE Micro-Vett having been removed from both the NICE and Fiat websites.

Meanwhile others, such as the Chevrolet Volt, Tesla Roadster and the Toyota Prius Plug-In, are clearly on their way.

So if you want to take a glance at the plug-in vehicles that may well come to a road near you at some point in the future, check out the Plug In Vehicle Tracker website.

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Author: Paul Lucas, June 22, 2009
Filed under: Green cars,Hybrid cars,Latest news

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The electric FIAT 500 is indeed being produced (I have seen it with my own eyes!) but not in any way by NICE Car, who in turn have nothing to do with FIAT. Micro-Vett is alive and well and is currently building the 500 along with several other electric models and small scale production of the 500 should begin by the end of the year.

Comment by Cowboy — June 23, 2009 @ 5:42 pm

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