What kind of bonkers science took Electric Vehicles from quirky novelty to racetrack hero? How did the internal combustion motor not only kill the electric car, but also make it absolutely amazing? What is the true origin of the electric car, and what does it have to do with a modern electric car that recently broke the world record for drifting? Turn on, tune in, and plug in… it’s an are-we-past-using-gas edition of Past Gas… the history of EVs!
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Past Gas #205: How Chevrolet Was Kicked Out of Chevrolet
Past Gas #204: Kei Cars: How a WWII Loophole Created Japan's Tiny Cars
Past Gas #203: Burt Munro: How a 70 Year-Old Built a Landspeed Record Bike in His Shed
Past Gas #202: Why We Think Lotus’s Founder Faked His Own Death
Past Gas #201: Spoon + Mugen: The Kings of Honda Tuning
Past Gas #200: 200th EPISODE SPECIAL: Fun Stories, 20lb Dogs, & Fan-Fiction
Past Gas #199: Travis Pastrana: The Human Action Figure
Past Gas #198: Miracle at the Nurburgring: The Story of the 1969 Argentinian Torinos
Past Gas # 197: The Eerie Parallel Deaths of Ferrari’s Father-Son Superstars
Past Gas # 196: Paris-Dakar Rally: The History of the Race Across the Sahara Desert
Past Gas #195: Jochen Rindt: The Driver Who Won an F1 Championship Posthumously
Past Gas #194: Holden vs Ford: The Birth of Australia’s V8 Supercars
Past Gas #193: Six Small Stories About BIG Automotive Heroes
Past Gas #192: Rat Fink: The Real Story Behind That Weird Hot Rod Art
This Guy Won Le Mans DRUNK (Replay)
Past Gas #191: JGTC: Every Car You Like Came from This Japanese Racing Series
Past Gas #190: The Unsers: How ONE Family Kept Winning the Indy 500
Past Gas #189: Shelby Daytona Coupe: How Three Guys Beat Ferrari...Again
Past Gas #188: Willy T. Ribbs: The First Black Driver to Test a F1 Car
Past Gas #187: The Ferrari Curse Was Broken by an American
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