Coming soon: electric cars that can travel 200 miles on a charge. In the February issue, Alex Davies reported that General Motors, under the leadership of CEO Mary Barra, will beat Tesla chief Eton Musk in the race to build a true long-range electric car when it debuts the Chevy Bolt later this year ("Power Play," issue 24.02). And yes, we were just as surprised by Chevy's supremacy as many of you. "Richly ironic," Davies wrote, for a company that went bankrupt just seven years ago and killed its own electric vehicles twice before. But it's proof that even a century-old dog can pull off a spectacular new trick.
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