Hyundai Announces It Will Offer Plug-in Hybrid in 2013
Posted By Laura K. Cowan On May 25, 2011 @ 8:48 am In automotive,Green Transportation,News | No Comments
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Joining the ranks of automakers a little late [5] to the hybrid [6] party, Hyundai just announced plans to offer a plug-in hybrid [7] by 2013. An unnamed company official told Reuters this weekend that Hyundai [8] “plan[s] to launch a plug-in hybrid model which is in the same segment as the Prius in 2013.”
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The new hybrid’s design would likely be based on the Sonata [10], which has been selling well. “We’re seeing terrific demand for it,” Hyundai Motor America president and CEO John Krafcik said earlier this month. A Prius-fighter? Well, maybe. But when it makes its way to the U.S. market the new Hyundai is more likely to steal sales from Kia’s upcoming Optima Hybrid [5], which will likely be closer to it in size and efficiency.
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