Hanks wrote the letter to the editor to clear up a mistake made when Peter J. Boyer recently wrote about the country's financially troubled automobile industry. In his New Yorker article, Boyer incorrectly stated that Hanks once owned a General Motors EV1. Hanks said that there were no EV1s to be had in 2003 when he started looking for an electric car.
"Instead, I found what was purported to be the very last electric car available for sale in the state of California — a Toyota EV," Hanks wrote. "It had four doors, a rear hatch, room for my family, including a dog in the back, power windows, A/C, a great sound system, and the fastest, most effective windshield defroster known to mankind. When the car companies collectively, and, to some, diabolically, decided to take these cars back, the electric vehicles disappeared. But not mine."
Toyota stopped manufacturing the RAV4 EV in 2003.
Inside Line says: Hanks takes the time to tell his personal EV story. — Greg Johnson, Correspondent
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