LifeSource Natural Foods owns and operates a 1997 Chevrolet S-10 electric vehicle. This vehicle was made by Chevrolet in their manufacturing plants. It has good acceleration and can go 70 miles per hour on the freeway. It has a range of approximately 50 miles per charge. This vehicle has zero emissions. Producing the electricity to charge the batteries does generate emissions but these are far less than produced by a car burning gasoline driving the same distance.

Our Chevrolet S-10 has a 3 phase liquid cooled 85 KW electric motor that develops 114 hp. The motor is powered by 26 Ovonic 85 Ah NiMH batteries that develop 400 volts. The batteries are in a special enclosed box suspended under the frame beneath the bed of the truck. A full charge of these batteries stores approximately the same energy as 1/2 gallon of gasoline contains. The NiMH batteries can be good for 100,000 miles.
In 1997 and 1998 Chevrolet made these electric pick-up trucks as part of a program to develop electric vehicles. At this time the State of California had a law that required automobile manufacturers to start producing some zero emission vehiclesMany automobile manufacturers were developing electric cars. General Motors made the EV-1. Toyota developed the Rav4EV, Ford produced the Ford Ranger EV, Honda made the EV Plus, Chrysler the EPIC minivan, Nissan the Altra EV station wagon. When the California law was significantly modified these automobile manufacturers closed down their electric vehicle programs. Most of the electric vehicles were leased. When the leases ended these vehicles were recalled and crushed. A few Chevrolet S-10Evs, Ford Ranger EVs, and Toyota Rav4EVs were sold instead of leased and are still on the roads today.