Volume 43, Number 19 · November 28, 1996
Easy Rider
By Bill McKibben
The Car that Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle
by Michael Shnayerson
Random House, 295 pp., $25.00
Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America
by Michael Brian Schiffer
Smithsonian Institution Press, 225 pp., $24.95
Is there an American male who hasn't at some time fantasized about getting to test-drive the newest, sportiest, most advanced automobiles Detroit produces? Cars rank fairly low on my own list of obsessions—still, it was with unmistakable pleasure that I climbed into the driver's seat of GM's new EV1 last month. The nation's first mass-produced electric car in seventy-five years, the EV1 goes on sale later this fall in California. If you are interested in buying one, here is what you need to know.
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