While the ability for Obama, if elected, to deliver on his energy-related campaign promises remains to be seen, Tuesday night's presentations helped establish the plug-in hybrid as a mainstream American household term perhaps as a synonym for 100-mpg vehicle.
Felix Kramer, who has made plug-in electric cars not only his passion but an imminent American reality, was always ready to take a query from me.
The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life.
It represents nothing less than the first step in the reinvention of the automobile.
Possibly the most sought-after technological innovation since Captain Kirk first flipped open his communicator is the plug-in hybrid.
Volt is the GM's "most important model in decades -- and possibly the key to its survival.
It's not a car for everyone, but it's the first step toward a new kind of car for everyone.
The buzz-phrase now is plug-in hybrid,