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Car makers need VCs

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robday.jpgThe automobile industry hasn't exactly built a reputation for incorporating game-changing green technology into mass production cars. Sure, everywhere you turn you see a Prius, especially here in Northern California, but that's an exception to the rule.

The answer, according to @Ventures principal Rob Day, is for stodgy automakers to solve the problem of their shrinking R&D budgets by working alongside cleantech VC firms and entrepreneurs to invest in innovative technologies.

Click here to view Day's blog at Greentech Media.

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