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Northfield's Hutchison family uses sun to charge up its two small electric cars

Matthew Strabuk

Northfield's Hutchison family uses sun to charge up its two small electric cars

Ron Hutchison, one of five co-founders of a local chapter of the sustainability program 350.org, demonstrated on Feb. 26 in his Northfield driveway the ease of charging up the battery of his Think City electric car.

Matthew Strabuk

Northfield's Hutchison family uses sun to charge up its two small electric cars

Ron Hutchison, right, and sons, Colin, left, 20, and Neil, 17, talked at their Northfield home about Neil’s recent driver’s test and possibly being one of the first in the state, if not the nation, to have taken a driver’s test in an electric car.

Matthew Strabuk

Northfield's Hutchison family uses sun to charge up its two small electric cars

Neil Hutchison, 17, of Northfield, used the Think City electric car to take his driver’s test and had no trouble with parallel parking. ‘The people in front of me couldn’t do it,’ he said.

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