As you plot your next campaign, a hybrid social-studio model is the new way to play the game.
What's more, the company says its also readying an all-electric version of the vehicle in addition to the plug-in hybrid model, with promising to last for around 120 miles before needing a recharge.
Unlike cars like the Ford Focus Electric and the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid, the Model S follows a similar strategy to BMW's ActiveE when it comes to regenerative braking.
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Investors puzzled over its hybrid consumer-and-enterprise business model, which depends on attracting consumers but selling services mainly to businesses, and its focus on the less-flashy world of professional connections.
On Tuesday, floor traders wound up the day processing orders manually, using paper, pencil and in some cases white board to keep track of buy and sell orders, instead of using the electronic trading system that is supposed to be the show-piece of the hybrid model.
In a separate announcement, Toyota, which was a pioneer of petrol-electric hybrid vehicles with its Prius model in 1997, said sales of these and its other hybrid models had now passed five million.
The car company delayed the launch of its first and only commercially available model, the plug-in hybrid called Karma, and that caused A123 to lower its 2011 sales forecast significantly.
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For instance, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, model year 2012 plug-in hybrid sales of cars like the Chevy Volt are running at triple the rate of last year, and hybrids are up almost 50 percent compared to 2011.
The hybrid design of its Windows 8-based Vaio Duo 11 model adopts a concept that has long been promoted by chip designer Intel.
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And in this case, the hybrid model has nothing to do with overhead cams and internal-combustion horsepower but everything to do with using IT-driven insights to get NASCAR fans to buy more tickets and engage more actively with the sport.
Ditmire from Fox-Pitt says the lesson from Tuesday may be that the manual part of the hybrid model at NYSE will disappear more quickly than many already expect.
It advocates a "hybrid a la carte" model, in which those most expensive channels are sold individually on top of genre-based tiers.
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