The car that could

by Michael Shnayerson · first published 1996

More than six years ago, General Motors vowed publicly to mass-produce the world's first modern electric vehicle. As risky in its own right was GM's decision to let a writer record the program's progress from inside the gates of its Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, exactly as he saw it, however it might turn out. The result is a remarkably intimate portrait in the tradition of Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, a story of the people who found new answers to the. Technological challenges that have confronted electric vehicles since the turn of the century. When Michael Shnayerson began