Battery of changes: the car industry's electric future

[Aurora]

The National - 23/01/10

This year, more models and variants of electric cars, such as the Chevrolet Volt, the Fisker Karma and the Nissan Leaf, will join other plug-in and electric hybrid cars that are in showrooms and on the road already. As the number of choices increases for consumers, and as the electric car gets more and more prevalent in the coming years, industry experts are saying that the current model of the car industry – from how people buy a car to who sells it – is set to radically change. And those insiders aren’t all just from the car industry.

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