"nothing natural about it!"
You may think that this is a hoax, but the two videos are real, as was the electric car depicted. It was called the EV1 and was made by GM in 1999. The cars were enormously popular and by all reports wonderful to drive. Perhaps not so mysteriously in 2003 they were recalled and almost all of them were destroyed. Go here to find out more.
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The C.C.C.C webpage, A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies includes a short podcast interview with me along with links to these reviews:
... by Victor Villanueva in CCC 62.4 (June 2011)
... by Chanon Adsanatham in Teaching English in the Two-Year College 38.3 (March 2011)
... by Scott McLemee in Inside Higher Education (17 Feb 2010)
Note: you need to be a member of NCTE, and a subscriber to the relevant journal, to read the reviews by Villanueva and Adsanatham; the review by McLemee is available to the general public.