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Plug-in Chevette Although it doesn't show it, this car cost General Motors of Canada Ltd

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Plug-in Chevette Although it doesn't show it, this car cost General Motors of Canada Ltd

Date2/4/1980

Names

Mahler, John (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Picture

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Original Toronto Star caption: Plug-in Chevette Although it doesn't show it; this car cost General Motors of Canada Ltd. some $250;000 to build. It's the new Electrovette; a Chevette equipped with batteries; which GM hopes will be the car of the mid-1980s. The prototype; shown above with Frank Fleck; director of engineering for GM Canada; has a range of about 60 miles in the city with a 950-pound battery pack. [Incomplete]

Subject

Electric motors

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0009870F

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