Seattle — On the outside, it’s a basic, affordable, midsize Chevy Malibu.
But on the inside it’s a hybrid like no other, with two separate engines — one biodiesel, the other electric — that together give it the muscle of, well, a muscle car, not the faint and tentative speed of some hybrids.
For the last three years, a team of University of Washington students has designed, planned, tested, rebuilt, rewired and re-engineered the innards of the General Motors car.
Recently the team showed it off at Denny International Middle School, where sixth-graders in teacher Ben Evans’ science class swarmed around the car parked in front of the school, and peppered college students Ryan Mallory and Jake Garrison with a hundred questions.
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Seattle Times