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| | Steal this car! - Salon |
 | | 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. |
 | | Professor Spertus even uses her EV1 in the lesson plans for her operating-systems course, when her students study computer security. |
 | | "neighborhood electric vehicles." EV1 drivers say the neighborhood cars, which have more in common with golf carts than cars, and are only safe at speeds of about 25 mph, just serve to reinforce the public's misconception that electric cars are little more than glorified toys that will never replace gas guzzlers. |
| dir.salon.com /story/tech/feature/2002/09/04/woe_to_ev1/index.html (666 words) |
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