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The automakers themselves describe '67 changes as evolutionary, not revolutionary. But sometimes evolution can lead backward as well as forward. Last week, Ford President Arjay Miller revealed that his company, like General Motors and Chrysler, is experimenting with a new version of the battery-operated electric car to cut down on the air pollution caused by gasoline fumes. Though the reincarnated electric cars are still a long way from the test track, Detroit must worry about what to name them. To avoid embarrassments like Banshee, the industry could revive the nostalgia-filled names of electric autos produced half a century ago—like Detroit, Baker, Waverley and, as recently as 1911, Studebaker.