"If the Chevy Volt's $40,000 price tag sounds a bit too steep, you could always go the do-it-yourself route of Oregon teenager Ashton Stark.
He just finished a yearlong conversion of his grandfather's 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle into an electric car."
NPR's Weekend Edition had the story July 31, 2010.
Source: NPR, 08/03/2010