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Article: Tesla Engineer Boosts EV Range to New Heights.(Editorial)
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- Design News
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- September 1, 2009
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By Charles J. Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics
JB Straubel is this year's Engineer of the Year for his dogged determination to boost the range of battery-powered electric vehicles
When Carol Straubel's 14-year-old son was rebuilding an old electric golf cart in 1989, she found herself driving the boy from town to town in Wisconsin, sometimes as far as 50 miles, in search of batteries, tires and electric motors.
"He was passionate about it," Straubel recalls. "He wrote to the manufacturers for information. He worked on it every day, all day long, all evening long, until he got it to run."
What Straubel didn't know back then ...