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Two people dead, one injured in helicopter crash in southwest Dawson
Two people were killed and one was injured when a helicopter crashed in southwest Dawson County Friday night. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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Dawsonville-based auto company crafts electric vehicle components
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Ampere EV operations manager Mike White shows off a DeLorean car that has been converted to run off of electric power. - photo by Julia Hansen
As he cruised his company’s steel-gray DeLorean around the old Dawson County courthouse, Ampere EV Chief Engineer Lawson Sumner remarked that five years ago, he “never could’ve imagined” working in a job quite like this. He and his colleagues have grown their company, Ampere EV, with a vision of providing components for people to modify their gas-powered vehicles into electric ones.