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It's almost an article of faith in the auto industry that electric cars will require huge subsidies in their initial years. Certainly Toyota is widely assumed to have put tens of billions of dollars into its hybrid-electric vehicle program before it started to cover its costs.

Most of the excitement at Geneva this year didn't come from the announcement of new production model cars. No, the task of riling up the auto press was left to the hyper-fuel efficient vehicle concepts trotted

While hybrid and all-electric cars are about five years away from becoming commonplace, 2010 will be a crucial year in determining how an electric car is designed, built, fueled, and used, according to a paper released Thursday by Pike Research. The auto industry is already

Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan Motor Corp., is one of the auto industry's leading advocates of electric vehicles. Coming to the U.S., he says, are three electric vehicles, including the Nissan Leaf compact and an electric car to be marketed under the Infiniti luxury brand.

Mass acceptance of electric vehicles will also require a big change in consumer attitudes toward cars—attitudes the auto industry has spent decades inculcating through advertising and a42-a6 battery product design.

The auto industry is on the brink of a giant technological jump to electrification but they don't want people to feel like driving electric means radical changes.

After a rough year for the auto industry, the survivors are increasingly pinning their futures on some form of electric vehicle technology. We'll take a quick look at some of the recent announcements from companies like Audi, BMW, Toyota, and Volkswagen.