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...but I love this. It just looks like fun... http://www.qdoscars.co.uk/zest.htm

<p>The rotary dial telephone. The black-and-white TV. The eight-track tape player.</p> <p>California is on the verge of adding a new item to the list of yesterday's technologies: the electric car.</p> <p>In a historic shift, state officials spent Monday putting the finishing touches on a new plan to end a longstanding requirement that forces automobile companies to build and sell specific numbers of electric cars in California.</p>

<p>In a historic shift, the state of California announced today a series of new rules that largely abandon the state's 12-year commitment requiring automobile companies to build and sell electric cars.</p> <p>The California Air Resources Board said electric car technology has not lived up to its promise, and that instead, state smog officials will allow hybrid cars, including the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic and other soon-to-be released models, to qualify under its clean car rules.</p>