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20 Dec 2008 HEADLINE


Automotive Start-Up Aims to Build 100 MPG Hybrid Truck



Source: Indianapolis Star
Class: SYNDICATED NEWS

SYNOPSIS: Bright is designing a 100-mile-per-gallon light truck assisted by electric power stored on the vehicle in a massive lithium-ion battery

ANDERSON, Ind. -- Detroit's chaos and America's summer bout with $4-a-gallon gasoline have opened the way for a wave of automotive innovators like John Waters. Primed to revive the state's ailing auto economy, the former General Motors engineer is the chief executive officer of Bright Automotive, an obscure Anderson startup whose 20 employees are busy on one job: creating a car company.

Led by Chrysler, GM and Delphi veterans, Bright is designing a 100-mile-per-gallon light truck assisted by electric power stored on the vehicle in a massive lithium-ion battery recharged from a wall socket. The goal: Get an assembly line going by 2012 for mass production of a high-tech truck known as a plug-in hybrid.

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08-Jan-2009
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We wish you much success!  As in the past, the decline in fuel prices has quieted the urgency we all felt just a few months ago to create and purchase practical alternative energy-fueled vehicles.  But the need for alternatives to fossil fuels is still there, and it's still urgent.  In the industry we work in, the mobile tool sales business where sales and service are conducted in commercial vehicles outfitted as mobile tool stores, the high price of fuel became a budget buster for people with large territories geographically.  This compounded further the problems created by lower auto sales and dealerships closing.  I know that we Americans can solve any problem we put our minds to and we will enthusiastically support your electric vehicles on ToolTrucks.com when they hit the market.


Posted by: Tom Kincaid


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