Back story

Some people love cars. Lucas Laursen isn\´t one of them. He drives a car maybe three or four times a year and does the rest of his commuting on the wonderful public transit system in Madrid, where he lives. He hasn\´t had his own car since his teens. And until IEEE Spectrum sent him to the Frankfurt Motor Show, in September, to report on an electric Formula One race car, he\´d never even set foot in such a venue [see "Electrifying Formula One," in this issue].