Fernwood 2Night Electric Car

The clip (which runs 3:40) has host Barth Gimble (Martin Mull) and his fractious sidekick Jerry Hubbard (Fred Willard) welcoming Fernwoods local gas station owner Virgil Simms (played by a very young Jim Varney, of the Ernest movies). Virgil has invented an electric car, which seems to be based on an orange Volkswagen Fastback from 1971-73. Once the battery is revealed—actually about 4,000 of them, seemingly D-cells—we couldnt help but think of the Tesla battery pack, with its 6,871 lithium-ion cells.

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YouTube | October 28, 2008

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