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Volvo aficionados will likely recognize the vehicle as being based on the company's C30 hatchback, which gives it an all-wheel drive propulsion system. Unlike the standard C30, however, this one has a lithium polymer battery pack in its trunk, which is said to boast enough capacity for 62 miles of all-electric driving. Once that's depleted, a four cylinder flex-fuel engine kicks in to re-charge the battery while you're still on the road. Of course, the key advantage here is that you can also simply plug in the vehicle to recharge the vehicle, cutting down even further on your gas consumption.

Power for the 2010 Prius Plug-in Hybrid Concept comes from the Hybrid Synergy Drive used in the new Prius, but with the nickel-metal hydride battery pack replaced by a new, lithium-ion battery. The battery in the Prius Plug-in can be fully recharged in one-and-a-half hours from a 230v power supply. On a full charge, the Prius Plug-in Hybrid Concept can cover approximately 12.5 miles in EV mode. After the battery is depleted, the Prius Plug-in Hybrid Concept operates as a regular full hybrid.

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2 to 5 Festest growing companies

2. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Rank: 2 (Previous rank: 11)
CEO: Lawrence J. Blanford
Address: 33 Coffee Ln.
Waterbury, VT 05676-8900
Forget about coffee by the pot. Green Mountain is buzzing along by convincing a growing number of java heads to fuel their habit one "K-Cup" at a time. The makers of Keurig single-serving brewing systems, which have become fixtures in offices and hotel rooms, Green Mountain shipped 1.6 billion K-Cups in 2009, a 63% surge from the prior year.

The Vermont-based company has pushed westward in the last two years by swallowing up Tully's, a Seattle-based roaster popular in supermarkets and southern Californian roaster Diedrich Coffee. It's still a long way from Starbucks, but at $1 billion-plus in revenues, Green Mountain has delivered a jolt to the coffee business.


3. Ebix
Ebix
Rank: 3 (Previous rank: 4)
CEO: Robin Raina
Address: 5 Concourse Pkwy.
Atlanta, GA 30328-7104
This IT consulting and outsourcing concern serves more than 100 insurance industry clients in some 50 countries. Areas of expertise include running online exchanges for insurance policies and annuities, claims processing and building custom software solutions. How fast is Ebix growing? The company posted $12.4 million in profits for the first quarter of this year -- roughly what it earned in all of 2007.

Last year, Ebix acquired three companies, including software firm E-Z Data, which has expanded business opportunities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. That's not it for Ebix's global ambitions: It plans to open new insurance exchanges -- its main source of revenue -- in Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

Rank: 4 (Previous rank: N.A.)
CEO: Marc Benioff
Address: 1 Market Plz.
San Francisco, CA 94105-1004
Salesforce.com's brash CEO, Marc Benioff, has long been an acolyte of so-called cloud-computing, the practice of renting, in this case, enterprise software over the Internet. Salesforce.com's cloud-offerings include all-in-one applications to manage sales and customer service. Its Sales Cloud 2 and Service Cloud 2 products allow clients to access account information, troubleshoot service requests, and collaborate with other members of the team in real time through one platform. Because the software is web-based, the data is also accessible at home or via a smartphone.

One of Salesforce's newest features, Chatter, is a Web2.0 application modeled in part after Facebook, one of its new customers. Last year, the IT firm signed up 17,100 new customers to its line of subscription-based services, a 19% lift

5. KapStone Paper and Packaging
KapStone Paper and Packaging
Rank: 5 (Previous rank: N.A.)
CEO: Roger Warren Stone
Address: 1101 Skokie Blvd.
Northbrook, IL 60062-4124
KapStone produces more than 300 types of kraft paper, used to make fast food carry-out bags, grocery sacks, folding cartons, gift baskets, and even floors. The paper and packaging powerhouse boosted its client list from 100 to 400-plus companies with the 2008 acquisition of the kraft division of giant MeadWestvaco. (It had previously purchased the kraft group from International Paper.)

KapStone temporarily cut salaries and benefits in early 2009, as the poor economy depressed prices and demand for its industrial paper. But as demand picked up, the company raised prices and wrapped up a 26% sales gains for the year.

Fastest growing companies

1. Eldorado Gold
Eldorado Gold
Rank: 1 (Previous rank: N.A.)
CEO: Paul N. Wright
Address: 550 Burrard St.
Vancouver, Canada V6C2B5
With the price of gold on a multi-year tear to bubble-like heights, Canada-based Eldorado has been broadening its global reach, acquiring two new operating mines in China. The first North American gold mining company to operate in that country, Eldorado also targets locations in Turkey, Greece and Brazil for exploration and development and is planning a broader push in South America.

Eldorado aims to keep the costs of mining, processing, transport, and selling around $375 an ounce. That low-cost strategy, coupled with soaring prices, has yielded three-year annualized earnings-per-share growth of 119%. In theory, gold could fall dramatically from its current heights around $1200, and Eldorado would remain profitable.

Best Company to Work For #2-4

Rank: 2 (Previous rank: 8)
What makes it so great?
The consulting giant not only avoided layoffs in the downturn, but hired its largest class of recruits ever in 2010.

They’re drawn by the firm’s generous pay and a commitment to social work: Its Social Impact Practice Network (SIPN) offers a chance to work with the U.N. World Food Program and Save the Children, while BCG pulled its consultants off client projects to provide on-the-ground support in Haiti following the earthquake.

The company jumps up from no. 8 last year.
Headquarters:
One Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
2009 revenue ($ millions): 2,750
Website: www.bcg.com

Rank: 3 (Previous rank: 3)
What makes it so great?
This customer-friendly supermarket chain cares about the well-being of its workers, too. This year, 11,000 employees took part in a challenge to eat five cups of fruit and vegetables a day and walk up to 10,000 steps a day for eight weeks.

Another 8,000 took advantage of health screenings that included a flu shot and H1N1 vaccine -- all covered by Wegmans.
Headquarters:
1500 Brooks Avenue
Rochester, NY 14603
2009 revenue ($ millions): 5,193
Website: www.wegmans.com

Rank: 4 (Previous rank: 4)
What makes it so great?
The search giant is famous for its laundry list of perks including free food at any of its cafeterias, a climbing wall, and, well, free laundry.

Last year, with revenue up more than 20%, Google sweetened this already rich pot of perks by giving every employee a 10% pay hike. Googlers can also award one another $175 peer spot bonuses -- last year more than two-thirds of them did so.
Headquarters:
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
2009 revenue ($ millions): 23,651
Website: www.google.com

Rank: 5 (Previous rank: 7)
What makes it so great?
It was a rebound year for the data-storage firm (no. 1 in 2009), as revenues jumped 33% and it hired hundreds of new employees.

Hourly executive assistants make $76,450 a year here, supplemented by a bonus of $21,917.

Employees also enjoy perks like free fruit on Tuesdays, free bagels and cream cheese on Fridays, and free espresso all the time.
Headquarters:
495 East Java Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
2009 revenue ($ millions): 3,931
Website: www.netapp.com

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Best Company to Work For

Rank: 1
What makes it so great?
The software firm takes the top spot for the second year running.

Its perks are epic: on-site healthcare, high quality childcare at $410 per month, summer camp for kids, car cleaning, a beauty salon, and more -- it’s all enough to make a state-of-the-art, 66,000-square-foot gym seem like nothing special by comparison.

This year, strong employee feedback sent its numbers even higher. Says one manager: "People stay at SAS in large part because they are happy, but to dig a little deeper, I would argue that people don’t leave SAS because they feel regarded -- seen, attended to and cared for. I have stayed for that reason, and love what I do for that reason."
Headquarters:
100 SAS Campus Drive
Cary, NC 27513
2009 revenue ($ millions): 2,310
Website: www.sas.com


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