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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...