Electric cars may not be the norm in 2009, but a group of high school students in Gaffney want to change the way you think about driving.
This may look like a car of the future, but it's built of parts from the past. A school in Cherokee county is about to go green and save green.
It's not a place where going green is on everyone's mind.
“I wanted to make sure my kids learned there are other ways to power vehicles.”
At Cherokee Technology Center, Doug Guthrie is putting his student's creativity to the test.
“We have to get them to think outside the box. The stuff we have today is not going to be around much longer,” explains Guthrie.
So, he took this 1970s era electric car and turned it into a lesson on going green.
“We don’t have to be dependent on foreign oil. We don't have to be married to the idea the internal combustion engine is the only way to get around,” says Guthrie.
Over the past three years, he and his high school students at Cherokee Tech have rebuilt this car from the ground up to be all electric.
“I like the idea of going all electric because it's a lot cleaner, better fuel efficiencies.”
John Hanna, a junior, says there was nothing like the day when the car was ready to drive.
“To be able to build something and be able to drive it around in the parking lot was amazing,” explains Hanna.
With all terrain tires, headlights and of course a place for your mp3 player…and you can't forget the horn.
“Everything that’s on a regular car is here, except for the gasoline driven engine,” says Guthrie.
Doug and his kids haven't ventured out onto the streets of Gaffney yet, but they say you could see their "green" car in a parade someday soon.
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