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 +
The Lux Research report published this month paints a less-than-rosy picture for the rate of adoption for electric cars. The Wall Street Journal’s Keith Johnson gives a comprehensive overview of the study in his October 7th story, “Speed Bump: Don’t Bank on Electric-Car Revolution, Lux Says.” The Lux report claims a much slower growth rate for [...] read more + share +
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 [...] read more + share +
With Chevy throwing out numbers like 230 MPG for the Volt and Nissan countering with 367 MPG for the Leaf, it’s no wonder that the discussion about how to measure electric vehicle fuel economy is heating up. Maybe Nissan and GM are still talking in MPG because that’s all they know, but the EPA and NHTSA [...] read more + share +