Agreeing on an industry-wide standard can often be a long and drawn-out affair. We’ve seen it before with VHS vs Betamax, CD vs Minidisc and more recently with HD DVD and Blu-Ray.

Thankfully, the majority of the world’s biggest automakers have instead decided to bypass the squabbling and agree on a standardised type of charging plug [...]

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The first version is still yet to go on sale, but engineers at General Motors are already hard at work developing the second and third generations of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid.

With the first Volt still over twelve months away, GM has decided to start work on successive generations of the car in an attempt [...]

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