Double Grammy-winning nerd rock band, They Might Be Giants, is instilling the virtues of clean transportation in a generation that likely can’t even drive yet.  With nearly 120,000 views on YouTube in two months, TMBG’s “Electric Car” music video, although a bit quirky, is an inspired creative proclamation about an optimistic future of zero emissions driving.

Lyrics like “On roads so dark, to change the end, rewrite the start” point to the more than century-long struggle the electric car has had to come out on top against it’s gasoline counterpart.

Interestingly, the bands manager of 20 years, Jamie Kitman, is also a columnist for Automobile Magazine and BBC’s Top Gear Magazine.  In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Kitman alluded to the hopefulness of the song and anticipated reception by a younger audience, “I think young people these days are reflecting more optimism in general for the environment than we ever did as youngsters.”

Let’s hope songs with messages like this one continue to permeate mainstream media and entertainment and influence the future leaders of our country to rally behind clean technology.

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