Junkyard Find: Electric 1995 Geo Metro

Normally, I wouldn't consider an 18-year-old Suzuki Cultus badged by a now-defunct GM marque to be worthy of inclusion in this series, but this particular example— which I found at my favorite Denver self-service wrecking yard— has been converted to electric power and is thus sort of interesting. The valuable stuff that electric-car geeks like to keep (i.e., the electric motor, control circuitry, and batteries) is all gone, but you can see that this setup used the Suzuki front-drive transaxle more or less intact. It looks like there was some sort of electrical fire or maybe a big acid spill in the rear of the car at some point, judging from the pried-open-in-a-hurry hatch and melted insulation. You don't see many 400-amp ammeters and 180-volt voltmeters in junked econoboxes! Now that you can buy genuine factory-made electric cars, these homemade jobs don't quite make the statement they once did. Still, the guy who built this car is probably driving a different electric machine. Let's hope it's an electron-driven Triumph Stag. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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