Monthly Archives: May 2009

Chelsea Test Drives The Volt

May 27, 2009 – 8:29 am

Our Consulting Producer Chelsea Sexton got to test drive the GM Volt recently.
Here’s her verdict :
From the first Volt unveiling over two years ago, I’ve wanted to drive one. At some point last year, Tony Posawatz’s first words upon seeing me ceased to be “Hey, chels”, and became “I know, I know”. Given the [...]

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Tom Hanks, The New Yorker — and Electric Cars

May 12, 2009 – 11:39 am

We were delighted to see Tom Hanks’s letter in this week’s ‘New Yorker’  — singing the praises of electric vehicles and name checking ‘Who Killed the Electric Car ?’
Read the full letter here :
RE: THE ROAD AHEAD
A letter in response to Peter J. Boyer’s article (April 27, 2009)
MAY 18, 2009
Peter J. Boyer, in his otherwise [...]

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The Power of Electric

May 11, 2009 – 12:05 pm

When Google asked for submissions of a 90 second video on the benefits of plug in cars to show at a 2008 Washington DC Brookings-Google Electric Car conference, Alexandra Paul and Stefano Paris decided to rise to the challenge! With Stefano’s friend Gary Winterboer, they shot this video at a local gas station using Alexandra’s RAV4-EV [...]

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A Bright Day in DC

May 10, 2009 – 11:40 pm

YOU KNOW THE times are a changin’ when you see Republican senators like Richard Lugar turning out for the launch of an electric vehicle.   We interviewed Senator Lugar in DC recently — as we caught the Capitol Hill debut of Bright Automotive’s Idea — a plug-in hybrid electric delivery vehicle.
Senator Lugar was also cheering for [...]

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MINI E Makes LA Debut

May 6, 2009 – 3:45 pm

BMW’s just held an event for the lessees of their MINI E at the Science Center, next to the University of Southern California, a really stellar venue when you consider the product they were showing.
I arrived at the same time as Stefano Paris, Plug In America’s documentarian, and as we walked from the parking lot, [...]

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Elon — and Model S — on Letterman

May 1, 2009 – 1:56 pm

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared on the David Letterman show on Wednesday. Dave and Elon talk about the Roadster, the Model S and the future of electric cars.
Watch out for the name check for ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ around 3 minutes in …

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Wally Rippel drives the MINI E

May 1, 2009 – 12:59 pm

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AC Propulsion, the San Dimas, CA, company that birthed the modern-day EV with its AC-150 drive train, was tapped by BMW last year to provide drivetrains for an initial run of 500 Minis. Dubbed the “MINI E,” these fully-electric cars are just weeks from being deployed on the streets of Southern Californai, New York, [...]

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