Andrew Angellotti lives about an hour north of Detroit, but he’s light years ahead of General Motors when it comes to electric cars. Angellotti, who’s 16 years old, took the $6,000 he saved up working as a lifeguard and, following instructions he found on the Internet, spent it converting a 1988 Mazda pick-up truck to run on golf-cart batteries.

General Motors hopes to have an electric vehicle on the market by 2010. Of course, they already had an electric car, the EV1, but they pulled the plug on it for all the nefarious reasons spelled out in that true-life tale of vehicular homicide, Who Killed the Electric Car?

As Angelotti told The Environment Report, “the message I’m trying to send is, if a kid can build an electric car, why isn’t GM doing it? They can do it. They’re just not.”

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