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There were plenty of mismatches to exploit. Harvard's team speed advantage over New Hampshire was the equivalent of pitting a Ford V8 against a Venetian blind. There was no comparison...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Laxmen Explode At Ohiri | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

Like the other white-gloved ladies in Detroit at the turn of the century, Clara Ford preferred to drive a clean and simple electric machine. Her husband Henry, however, had other ideas: his bouncy, backfiring, gas-powered Model T soon passed the gentler cars, leaving them in the dust of the Motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off and Humming | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Ninety years later, Clara may yet have the last word. At their own tortoise pace, electric cars are regaining fans, including a few in powerful places. In an unprecedented collaboration, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler are working to develop a new electric battery that would serve the U.S. industry -- driven at least in part by rules in California that will require carmakers to sell affordable "zero emission" (translation: electric) vehicles by the end of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off and Humming | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...develop an advanced battery, which is the key to building a truly marketable electric car. Their cooperation has led to speculation that they may even jointly build some kind ( of national supercar, but that would only delay their product design teams and defy their own fierce competitive traditions. Ford and Chrysler have already begun delivery of experimental electric-powered vans, mainly to public utility customers. They have seen the future, and it doesn't come with a fuel tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off and Humming | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...road, but new tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finally persuaded them to act. The pickups' fuel tanks, says William Boehly, NHTSA's top enforcement official, "have a risk of fire in fatal side-impact crashes that is 2.4 times greater than that of Ford trucks. General Motors should therefore initiate a recall." About 300 people have died in crashes involving GM trucks. The callback, which could cost the automaker as much as $1 billion, is a request and not an order. GM, arguing that NHTSA is relying on questionable data, may refuse the appeal. The company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Exactly an Order . . . | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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