Don’t like gas prices? Try this car

Cato man builds his own battery-powered car

Kieth LaTray’s kids groaned the day he cut through the back of his 1992 Ford Festiva with an electric saw.

Not that their father’s act was out of character. LaTray had already removed the engine, the exhaust system and the fuel tank, and replaced them with an electric motor, a ton of batteries and a hair dryer to heat the interior.

It was just that the electrified car the LaTrays use to commute between Cato and Syracuse three or four days a week would look “like a clown car,” his 17-year old daughter, Natasha, said.

Maybe. But as gasoline prices climb over $3 a gallon, who’s laughing loudest?

Syracuse Post-Standard