Word: devel
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...bother? For years, Detroit's Big Three didn't, despite public protests to the contrary (former GM chairman Roger Smith solemnly promised a commercially viable electric car by the mid-1980s). Even in recent years they have devoted less than 2% of their research-and-devel opment budgets to electric and other alternative-fuel vehicles. Admits GM's vice president of advanced engineering Donald Runkle (although something of an electric buff himself): "They're kind of funny and hokey with these strange electric noises, always buzzing, clicking and humming. There was always this image that they were just slow, dumpy...