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"This IS His Grandfather's Bug, But Now It's Electric" [1]

"If the Chevy Volt's $40,000 price tag sounds a bit too steep, you could always go the do-it-yourself route of Oregon teenager Ashton Stark.

He just finished a yearlong conversion of his grandfather's 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle into an electric car."

NPR's Weekend Edition had the story July 31, 2010. [2]

Energy & Fuel [3]
Transportation [4]
Technology [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Public [7]
Source: NPR [2], 08/03/2010
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/his-grandfathers-bug-now-its-electric [2] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128892473 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/transportation [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81