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Jack Hidary: Chelsea Sexton on the Auto Bailout and Auto Future

 
Chelsea Sexton was featured in the movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Chelsea worked for GM on the first commerical electric vehicle, the EV1, and now heads up http://www.pluginamerica.org/ Chelsea is now working on a new film, "The Revenge of the Electric Car" - should be a good one! In this video interview, Chelsea talks about the auto bailout as well as what the future holds for our upended auto industry. What do you think will happen to the US auto makers? (link)

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