Recharging a Century-Old Market: Fed loans needed to refine, not reinvent, plug-in cars

摘要

THE PAST IS NOTHING IF NOT A SIGNPOST to the future, as history has proven. So, as the 2008 U.S. presidential election draws near, it's a good time to remind the candidates, and their respective political parties, that plug-in electric and other fuel-efficient technologies the Detroit auto makers are racing to develop are not a recent phenomenon.