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Alaskan teen builds electric car

-- Benton -- 08/18/2009

Even in Alaska, home of "drill, baby, drill," Americans are standing up and taking action against climate change. Bart Grabman, a teenager and avid skier, who had seen snow levels in Alaska dropping as they are affected by global warming, decided to take his turn. He took an old VW bug and built it into an electric car.

He said the environmental issue that concerns him the most is global warming and that he just wanted to do something to help the environment.

Grabman, who said he knew very little about cars before taking on the project, said he is almost finished and has even taken the rusty, red clunker out for a spin.