The Lincvolt: Electric Heavy Metal

The Lincvolt
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I have been reading about the lincvolt a lot lately. It is a modified 1959 Lincoln that is shooting for a goal of 100 mpg. So far they are getting around 60. That great technician Neil Young is touting them, I read his stuff on Huffington Post and, doggonit, it makes sense.
Here it is:
"From Wichita, Kansas we get this report: A 1959 Lincoln Continental repowered to be a self charging electric vehicle by a small group of engineers and local services, is now achieving up to 65 mpg in informal tests. Work there continues. The goal of the project is to attain up to and beyond 100mpg for the biggest and heaviest car made in 1959. The car has been driven in California and Kansas and shown to over 15,000 people. In an audience of 12,000, one tenth of the people raised their hands when asked if they would like to have a car like that. That Lincoln represents a future for Detroit. It is the possibility of Big Clean cars that do not promote Global warming. Let's build them now, as well as economical small clean and green electric cars and let's put people to work. We already have the existing tooling and the facilities and manpower." Bring it on and soon. That is all I have to say about it.