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Can't wait for a Tesla? You can still get some electric cars this holiday season

We all know that electric cars are nothing new. I was driving electric cars three decades ago. I even had a whole fleet of them. Of course, they were each only a few inches long and could only run as long as the electricity supply stayed connected. They were, of course, slot cars. Scale model cars with a tracking pin that followed a slot on a closed course, as a pair of spring loaded contacts followed the electricity-charged rails on the track. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the original slot car system, the Scalextric. Scalextric ... Read more →

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