Putting Electric Cars on the Road

Your Sept. 10 editorial (“Electric Cars: Turning on Another Light”) states that “companies as big as General Motors have tinkered with electric cars for years without actually going into production.”

Tinkering? Hardly. GM announced in April that we are proceeding with plans to produce and market an electric car. The prototype car, the GM Impact, has a definite Southern California influence: It was designed at GM’s Advanced Concepts Center in Ventura County and was introduced Jan. 3 in Los Angeles. Hughes Aircraft Co. in Southern California and AeroVironment Inc. in Monrovia are among a large group of participants who have key roles in Impact’s development.

W. WILLIAM OTT

Director, Media Relations

General Motors Corp., L.A.