“In stop-and-go traffic on Highway 101 here, Ellen Spertus, the 2001 “Sexiest Geek Alive,” mock-apologizes for the ambient air pollution: “Sorry about the smog. But it’s not our fault. This car doesn’t even have a tailpipe.”
Spertus’ silver-blue, two-door sports car, which does zero to 30 in fewer than three seconds, doesn’t have a gas tank or a key either. It’s a 1999 EV1, an electric car that Spertus, a computer science professor at Mills College in Oakland, and her husband, Keith Golden, a rocket scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in nearby Mountain View, charge up every night at home in their garage in San Francisco.”
Link: Salon
