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Yesterday’s second annual Green Car Summit was not nearly as fiery as last year’s discussion, and maybe that’s a good thing.
Once again co-moderated by Warren Brown of the Washington Post and Ron Cogan of the Green Car Journal, which sponsored the event, the panel members this year stood in stark contrast to the varied technology proponents that we saw last year. Instead of getting someone to represent the diesel and natural gas industries, as happened in 2009, the organizers seemed to think it was time for a full-on discussion about vehicle electrification. In fact, Jason Wolf, vice president of Better Place, seemed to sum up the panel’s vibe when he said that the industry today has “a lot more consensus across the board that EVs [electric vehicles] are inevitable, more than you would have seen two years ago.” Instead of whether or not EVs are coming, he said, the question is “what route will we take to electrification?”
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