Jon Bereisa was a legend among his EV1 peers

Jonas Bereisa, who went by Jon, was a larger-than-life figure whose technical acumen pushed development of the EV1 past some of its most arduous challenges in the 1990s.

April 18, 2021 09:00 PM

A 6-foot-5 "mountain of a man" who turned down a college basketball scholarship for the chance to study engineering.

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