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Designs of this size. i drove this thing today, i'm telling you, it's got all thing bling of a lexus. >> eric: how does a hybrid work on this car? >> hybrid power train will take over at lower speeds, so you're not using ostensibly any gas. it switches back and forth automatically. you don't need to plug it in. >> eric: the thing i didn't like about the fully electric car, i was charging this thing in the rain once. >> they figure that stuff out, you're safe. >> eric: back to you nonresponsive thanks so much. coming up, many democrats and republicans agree the president's economic advisor is d...

time will tell. >> and mississippi's governor is under fire. 200 pardons in his final days. new information on who was set free and what these convicted killers are now allowed to do. we also understand that these are unconditional pardons, which means that their constitutional rights are restored. we're going to find out a little bit more about that. apparently, they're going to be able to vote and own guns. >> 2011 was so last year because 2012 got some stocks on a tear. the dow climbing to the highest level since july. what the what? >> we're going to figure all this out with chri...

that outbreak probably won't help. the woman caught on tape attacking the judge sentencing her and her husband is right there watching. you're going to see how the whole thing played out. and one more bit of news in the unfolding saga that is casey anthony. as people turn out for a memorial for her murdered daughter, she plans to get out of jail in just a few hours. we're live for you in orlando tonight. plus the pictures that you have to see to believe, a giant telephone tower goes up in flames and what happens next and people scrambling for their lives as it all played out on the...

Because sometimes what powers a car doesn't have a gallon of anything. it's electric. so this new metric we did with consumers report allows us to compare electric against hybrid against gasoline or ethanol, whatever it might be. we're rethinking power train, the materials that are in it, and really, just the entire approach of how cars are designed. >> one of the really interesting things is that there is this sort of multiplicity of approaches. i was reading one story about one team that is actually just building a standard gasoline-powered car, some are electrics. talk about that gasoline-p...

Equivalent of 100 miles a gallon? >> what we did was created a new metric for measuring how a car goes. and we call it mpge. miles per gallon equivalent. sometimes the power of the car doesn't have a gallon of anything. it is electric. this new metric we did with consumers report allows to us compare electric against hybrid against gasoline or ethanol or whatever it might be. that's the first you know this to do. and then we're rethinking the arrow die animal igs, we're rethinking the power systems and power train, the materials that are in it. and really just the entire approach of how cars a...