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By Rex Roy / The Bulletin
January 9, 2009
Electric-car doubters often say that a vehicle like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, intended to drive most of its miles on batteries charged from the power grid, is effectively powered by coal. While that is a vast oversimplification, it contains a germ of truth: Half of the electricity generated in....