Gas costs revive desire in Tucson for electric cars

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Electric cars are here. Again.

They've been here before. They approached the popularity of gasoline-powered cars around the beginning of the last century, before cheap gasoline helped kill them off.

And there was a bit of an electric-car buzz in Tucson in the mid-1990s when General Motors picked Tucson as one of a handful of Southwestern cities in which to lease its EV-1 electric cars (Which were later taken back by GM and crushed, fueling activists' theories about a Detroit/Big Oil conspiracy).

Tucson even had an electric-vehicle club in the 1980s, a group of, mostly, do-it-yourselves who built their own electrics or converted conventional gas-powered vehicles to battery electric power.

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