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Here comes the sun

For those who soon expect the world to end, or at least foresee a day when gas stations run dry and the nation's power grid goes pfzzzt, Kenny Ham has a vehicle for you.

Called the Apocalypse EV1, the all-electric conveyance he has in mind will be equipped with a solar charger, so that when the residential electric outlets are all smoldering holes in the walls, his car still will be on the road.

But don't rush to showrooms yet. The Apocalypse EV1 exists a little on paper but mostly in the brains of Ham and his brother, Michael, a researcher in Los Alamos, N.M.

Kenny Ham is a student at Kansas State University at Salina, where he is studying, appropriately enough, mechanical engineering technology.

"Growing up, I was interested in RC (remote control) cars," Ham said.

He said he remembered how his fellow remote-control hobbyists were always fussing with their gas engines.

"I just connect the battery and go," he said.

Source: Salina.com

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