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Fri 11 Nov 2008Short circuit in race to be Model T of electric cars
INBOX:INSIDE A laboratory in New York in 1885, a Serbian immigrant named Nikola Tesla worked day and night on electrical generators for electricity pioneer Thomas Edison. But the two men fell out over a patent dispute and Tesla had to get a job digging ditches, though still working on his theories.
Little could he have imagined that more than 100 years later, a new kind of electric sportscar would be named after him. Yet the battle over who will be the "Edison" of the electric car is as alive today as any race between inventors at the turn of the century.
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