One of those is ECOtality, which manages the EV Project, an initiative to get the electric car movement reborn.

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In a car custom movement that sounds much like the recent craze for after market wheels, Rolls-Royce owners were modifying their cars with ornaments.

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Among the offerings are a bid to park a Mini in a space simply not mini enough for it, a man using a space so small that he has to turn his wheel a dozen times and jolts the neighbouring cars with every movement, and a car reversing heavily into the one behind it - repeatedly.

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Officials at the scene also tried to look through the car windows, but could not detect any movement.

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Mr Lamb, who was severely injured in a car accident in 1990, has no function in any of his limbs apart from a little movement in his right hand.

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