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 +
The pessimists are at it again. Last week Reuters ran a story suggesting electric cars still have a long way to go before they’re the “perfect solution” to our country’s transportation-related pollution woes. Why wait for the perfect solution when a good solution with the room to grow into the perfect solution is already here? The Reuters [...] 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 +