Globe and Mail: In the dank basement of McGill University’s Macdonald Engineering Building, a century-old stone edifice erected when buggies ruled Montreal’s then-muddy roads, Jeff Turner is designing a car befitting the 21st century. As co-captain of McGill’s Formula Hybrid Racing Team, the 24-year-old graduate student in mechanical engineering tweaks his computer models to determine how hot his electric car’s lithium-ion battery can get – and, hence, how fast the vehicle can go – before bursting …