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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

Cars That Think

Latimer and Shelby J. Davidson, are the subjects of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Why we need to remember history’s hidden figures Woods and two other overlooked Black inventors, Lewis H.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I He said he plans to discuss the idea with [Caroll] Shelby and [Lee] Iacocca. "I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. But its ready now.

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