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003			OCoLC
005			20141024132324.0
008			040318s2004 nyu b 000 0 eng d
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100	1		_aKettlewell, Caroline. _93757
245	1	0	_aElectric dreams : _bone unlikely team of kids and the race to build the car of the future / _cCaroline Kettlewell.
250			_a1st Carrol & Graf ed.
260			_aNew York : _bCarroll & Graf, _c2004.
300			_a290 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aWhen Berkeley graduate Eric Ryan was sent by Teach for America to a hardscrabble high school in the heart of North Carolina's NASCAR country, he didn't count on Harold Miller - a big guy with a big laugh and a tarheel accent as thick as sorghum syrup - sticking his head into his class one morning and announcing, "Hey Mr. Ryan, we're gonna build an electric car." Two regional utilities had challenged a group of elite schools throughout the South to design and build battery-powered electric vehicles to be judged during a final contest at NASCAR's Richmond International Raceway. Although Ryan's underprivileged high school was not on the list, Miller managed to squeak them in. With a Ford Escort rescued from the compacter, a few hundred pounds of scavenged golf cart batteries, a local minor league NASCAR driver as coach, and the local constabulary looking the other way as the reborn "Shocker" began careening over back roads on test runs, the kids get their pasted-together dark horse to the big contest in Richmond. Electric Dreams offers drama built on marvelous small-town characters, and a story of never-say-die invention which would make North Carolina's other pioneers, the Wright Brothers, proud.
650		0	_aElectric automobiles _xDesign and construction _xCompetitions. _93758
650		0	_aHigh school students _zNorth Carolina _zNorthampton County. _93759
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