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January 17, 2012

Crash Testing Ford's Plug-In

Joanne Lipman, The Daily Beast


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For more than three years, President Obama has been singing the praises of electric cars. He’s repeatedly called for 1 million plug-in and hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015. He’s ignored the skeptics who said it was impossible. . .

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