Electric Dreams

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Description

When Eric Ryan is sent by Teach for The united states to a hard scrabble high school in the heart of North Carolina’s NASCAR country, some of the many things he didn’t count on used to be Harold Miller sticking his head into his class one morning and announcing, “Hey Mr. Ryan, we’re gonna build an electric car.” Two regional utilities had challenged a group of elite schools all the way through the South to design and build battery-powered electric vehicles. Despite the fact that Ryan’s underprivileged high school had not even been on the list, someway Miller had managed to squeak them in and onto an adventure which not only began to take over the lives of Ryan, Miller, and a local engineer named George Hawkins, but an unexpected group of kids with no visible resources, know-how, or expectations. With an ancient Ford Escort rescued from the compacter, a couple of hundred pounds of scavenged golf cart batteries, a local minor league NASCAR driver as coach, and the local constabulary taking a look the wrong way as the reborn “Shocker” began careening over back roads on test runs, the kids (barely) get their pasted together dark horse to the big contest in Richmond, and then, naturally, win the entire thing.

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