The believer: With no shortage of idealists who'd like to reinvent the car, Larry Burns is in a position to do it

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NEXT MONTH, IT WILL BE a decade since General Motors' Richard Wagoner made Larry Burns the company's vice president for research and development and gave him one standing order: Reinvent the car. Burns rolled out his answer in 2002: the Autonomy fuel-cell concept car, describing a new DNA for automobility involving not just a new power source - hydrogen - but total electrification of all systems needed for steering, braking, climate control and more.