I posted about a guy from BBC Radio 4 doing a drive round Europe in an Electric car here :
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ope-13558.html
Which attracted no interest at all
The same guy has restored/just started a radio series about restoring an electric car Pioneer - the Enfield Thunderbolt :
The background story is
here, the opening blurb :
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Earlier this year Nissan began production in Sunderland of the Leaf, the first electric car to be mass-produced in the UK. But 40 years ago, about 100 electric cars were built on the Isle of Wight to a design that was years ahead of its time.
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There is a lot more on the history of the Enfield
here too.
The program was pretty good, including interviews with loads of people involved. Although the Beeb limits access to the UK there are loads of tutorials online about how to listen to download these programs.