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...California this fall saw any sheep being slaughtered on the roadway in honor of an arriving candidate, the way they still like to do it in Turkey. That would not go over in the shopping malls of Rancho Cucamonga." So observes TIME's West Coast bureau chief Jordan Bonfante, who should know...
...city of Los Angeles and a California power company have proposed a radical solution to the problem of powering electric cars: electrify the roads. Last week they announced a $2 million demonstration project in which electric cables will be run under 300 meters (1,000 ft.) of roadway in a west Los Angeles development called Playa Vista. Electricity from the cables would be used both to power electric cars and to recharge their batteries for travel on conventional roads...
Still, the electric-roadway project is generating a lot of excitement in pollution-plagued Los Angeles. "I'm thrilled," says Jim Lents, executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which voted last spring to require that all cars in Southern California operate on electricity or other clean fuel by the year 2007. "This is what we were hoping to stimulate." Automakers have also been tinkering along these lines. Peugeot and Fiat have announced plans to sell electric vehicles in Europe within the next few years, and Ford is testing an electrified model of the Aerostar...
Electrifying even a few short stretches of roadway could increase the range and effectiveness of such voltswagens dramatically. Developers in Playa Vista hope to wire the subdivision's two-mile main artery and service the neighborhood with all-electric trucks and vans. Edison's Reeves dreams of extending the network until it crisscrosses the state. Electrifying one or two lanes of a freeway, he says, might be enough to keep fleets of buses and cars charged up. People wedded to gas-gulping cars could still drive on electrified highways, but they might get dirty looks from the new breed...
...souped-up Chevy Lumina circles the track at North Carolina's Charlotte Motor Speedway. At the wheel is Tom Cruise, daredevil superstar. The hazel eyes that laser out of his handsome face focus on the thrill of speed and risk. Nor is this challenge confined to a roadway's hard curve; it applies as well to his career in the movies, even if it means taking dangerous curves toward roles that might confound his fans. This day, after a dozen laps, Cruise sees a dime, stops on it and emerges from the Lumina to say hello to a visitor...