Almost all of the 1,100 EV1 electric cars that General Motors produced in the late 1990s were destroyed, spare a handful that were donated to museums and universities.

The company rolled the program out yesterday with just 40 vehicles at 10 sites.

Good morning, Washington, and welcome back to what will be a rather short work week for most of us. While airports and train stations are sure to be jammed with holiday travelers this week, the city’s roads and metro system should be a little less crowded than normal as folks head out of town early to celebrate Thanksgiving. Less congestion may not make much of a difference in road safety, however, if a new survey…

Washington is no stranger to the submarining of eco-friendly technologies; back in the 1950s, Capital Transit’s extensive and successful District streetcar system was stripped of its license to operate and sold to new owners charged expressly with replacing the electric system with buses. Now a green techology that rose and fell in the 1990s is the subject of new debate in the city, and the Smithsonian is facing public scrutiny over its role in the…

Howard University’s engineering programs received a major boost with a number of corporations giving the historically black university $70 million, its largest gift ever. General Motors, Sun Microsystems, Electronic Data Systems and UGS are the donors. The NY Times reports that “the package includes 100 licenses to gain access to UGS software, which would cost $357,000 each to purchase commercially.” The grant will make Howard a major player in digital sculpting….

The 2004 D.C. Labor Film Festival starts tomorrow and ends Monday. The festival is sponsored by the DC Metro Council AFL-CIO, Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, and the American Film Institute, and all films are shown at the AFI’s Silver Theater in Silver Spring. The concluding film will be shown in the District at the D.C. Jewish Community Center at 1529 16th St. NW. All of the films are $8.50, the final film $9. The films include Michael…