What must America sacrifice in order to slow down its unprecedented oil consumption of nearly 19 million barrels per day? To cut back on the $3,600 or so that the average U.S. household spends annually to drive its cars from point A to point B? Less than you think. Much less. In fact, next to [...] read more + share +
Growing up in Cleveland during the heroic era of hot rodding, I remember building a ’66 Chevelle with an open chamber head, big block rat motor with my brothers in our garage, tuning the suspension, setting the timing just right and then blowing the doors off a high-priced, off-the-shelf Corvette on I-71 on a Friday [...] read more + share +
As history shows, the cost to bring disruptive technologies to market is usually steep; but as consumer adoption and demand grow, prices drop. From an ecological, economic, energy supply, and national security standpoint, we cannot wait 10 to 15 years for electric cars. We need affordable electric vehicles now. It’s not a question of when; all [...] read more + share +
As a nimble, growing electric car company, we took issue with David Welch’s recent BusinessWeek article on the Energy Department’s funding of two green car start-ups, Tesla and Fisker. Not that we weren’t just as baffled as the rest of America about why the Energy Department would give nearly a billion dollars – $993 million [...] read more + share +
With all of this talk about range anxiety, its completely understandable that people are a little stressed out just thinking about replacing their familiar gas guzzlers with an emissions free electric car. We get it. It’s new and it’s unfamiliar. So there’s a lot to think through, but that doesn’t mean you should discount them so [...] read more + share +