And while infrastructure may make electric vehicle technology usable, the car creators agreed that government subsidies are vital for making purchases financially viable.
He operates three solar farms in Hawaii where "everything is powered by sunshine, from the lawn mowers to pickup trucks". California Highway Patrolman Don Gibson, 50, whose patrol car escorted the MIT entry on the 160-mile course, likened the solar car creators to the Wright Brothers.
If the Volt redeems even a portion of its promise, it will be a remarkable, and most unlikely, achievement, both for G.M. and for the car's creator, Bob Lutz.
The car's creator, John DeLorean, may have been the biggest "Back to the Future" fan of all.
The car's creator notes that buyers can get a Model T in any color they want "so long as it's black --which the manufacturer preferred in part black --which varnish dried fastest.
The fan that is stirring up such a ruckus was the brainchild of Walt Boyd, an inventor, racecar driver, maker of custom car parts and creator of portable lifts for giant TV screens used at outdoor concerts.
Time and Newsweek put the car or its creator, Lee Iacocca, on their covers the same week, the first time those magazines coincided like that.
I even saw a letter to Lutz from the widow of GM's greatest car guy, Ed Cole Ed Cole, creator of the great 1955 Chevy and the famous small-block Chevy engine, saying how her husband would have been with him.
This car, say its creators, is smaller than any of its direct rivals.
Like its creator, the car's powertrain is all Chrysler.
