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Smoke is everywhere. It bursts into the cabin through the STI’s windows, the roof vent and the hole around the shift lever. It finds its way between imperceptibly small gaps in the floor and it bellows from the holes in the carbon-fiber dashboard like fumes from the nostrils of a turbocharged dragon.

There’s no escape. It wafts up your pants, down your shirt, soaks in your sinuses and bores ruthlessly through the Nomex in your fireproof Piloti driving shoes. And it has brutal staying power. Even when it’s gone, it still stinks — a sour, pungent stink that’s unmistakably burning rubber…  Details, Pictures & Video

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As fossil-fueled cars and trucks whizzed by on adjacent Interstate 30, about 150 junior high, high school and community college students at Pulaski Technical College’s South Campus put their electric-powered vehicles through their paces.

The sixth annual Arkansas Electric Vehicle Rally, sponsored by the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, has expanded from four teams running five cars in 2004 to eight teams fielding 11 cars for Friday’s competition, cooperative spokesman Rob Roedel said…  Details

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