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New Start-Ups Race to Build Green Car
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah  
Tesla.  Fisker.  Th!nk.  Loremo .  Mindset.  Not the nameplates you expect to see when you go car shopping?  Give it a few years, and these names may well be above Chevy and Toyota on your list.
The Wall Street Journal explains, "Spurred by the belief that the market for fuel-efficient vehicles is about to take off, a slew of tiny car companies is springing up in Europe and the U.S."  The companies "are racing to produce the next 'green' car, betting that soaring demand will allow them to survive alongside the giants of Detroit, Stuttgart and Tokyo."  Most are less than a year old, "and have financial backing from venture-capital firms," and engineers and designers who cut their teeth creating new cars for "the likes of Germany's Volkswagen AG and storied U.K. racecar builder McLaren."  

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