On some clear day in the distant fu ture, U.S. highways may be filled with si lent, exhaustless electric cars. For the time being, however, such an auto remains as elusive as unpolluted air. Those venerable vehicles of the early 1900s, the Baker and Detroit Electrics of pre-World War I days required many hours of battery recharging for every hour on the road. To this day, the "refueling" problem is one of the major obstacles holding up production of a commercially competitive electric car.
Engineers at Los Angeles' McCulloch Corp. believe that they may have found a solution. In an...
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