Coast-to-coast race without gas.

The article focuses on the participation of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology in the Great Electric Car Race of 1968 to be held in the week of August 19. It cites several companies that made donations for enhancing the automobiles of the two team such as General Motors, Gulton Industries and International Rectifier Corp. Lack of practical batteries is cited as the biggest barrier to commercial production of an electric car.