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    By Ucilia Wang

    | 9:00PM 2/08/2011
    In the State of the Union address in January, President Barack Obama set a goal of getting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. Now he's proposed $7,500 rebates, instead of tax credits, to reach that goal. Will that be enough to make it doable?

    By David Schepp

    | 4:30PM 6/30/2010
    A federal bankruptcy judge approved the $20 million sale of a 3.2 million-square-foot former GM plant in Wilmington, Del., to Fisker Automotive, a California-based plug-in electric vehicle start-up.

    By Ucilia Wang

    | 5:25PM 6/04/2010
    A newly energized GM is setting up a $100 million investment fund to bet on technologies that the automaker hopes will enable it to launch desirable, more fuel efficient cars -- and do so faster than its competitors.

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 1:20PM 10/28/2009
    When a General Motors plant in Wilmington, Del. shut down this July, it left 550 people out of work. But the city isn't mourning the loss of Big Auto so much anymore because Very Little Electric Auto is taking its place. Fisker, maker of small plug-in hybrid cars, announced Tuesday it was buying...

    By Lita Epstein

    | 10:15AM 10/27/2009
    President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will focus Tuesday on green projects and the new jobs they will create as they visit a new solar energy center and a former GM plant that will be retooled to produce electric vehicles. They will also announce $3.4 billion in government grants to...