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EV1 Aficionados Fight Model's Demise

A once cutting edge electric automobile is now headed for the scrap heap. General Motors is reclaiming hundreds of EV1's, but many people who once drove the cars don't want to let them go.

NPR's Luke Burbank has the story of how that's produced something of a standoff at a GM facility in Southern California.

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Luke Burbank
Luke Burbank is kind of amazed that NPR is letting him co-host its new morning show, The Bryant Park Project, NPR's new morning news show launched on October 1, 2007.
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