That is me, standing in a portico next to a rare surviving GM EV-1 electric car.  I asked a passer by to take that picture as "proof of life" that not all of these first-generation electric cars were cut up for scrap -- I guess some of them were donated to universities for research purposes.  

I am posing, in character, as someone who would offer you a "deal" on the purchase of a used electric car.