Posts with the tag of Past Shoots

Postcard from Iceland (2 of 2)

November 4, 2008 – 12:06 am

It’s really hard to beat a week in Iceland.  With the conference over, we went on a tour tracking down electric cars and the clean electricity to power them.
Highlights the second half included an unlikely interview in the spectacular black lava “Blue Lagoon” hot springs. This is the place where tourists sometimes ask “…why did [...]

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Postcard From Iceland (1 of 2)

October 10, 2008 – 3:31 pm

The rumors are true. Iceland is beautiful. Sitting on the continental plates between Europe and North America, this volcanic island is home to a mere 300,000 people.
I came as a guest for Driving Sustainability, Iceland’s conference for the future of cars. They lined up an international and terrific schedule. Yet-Ming Chiang from A123 [...]

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GM Detroit Shoot (2 of 2)

October 5, 2008 – 1:30 am

Early wakeup calls in Detroit continued as our grand tour picked up speed.
We shoot at the Tech Center campus where engineers ran tests on Volt battery packs. To our surprise, some of the industrial battery testing equipment came from Aerovironment, the company who had built the SunRaycer and Impact EV prototypes back in the early [...]

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GM Detroit Shoot (1 of 2)

October 4, 2008 – 1:35 am

General Motors invited me to Detroit to speak on a panel at its 100th anniversary along with a small group of other “outside voices”.  Since GM’s Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz planned to unveil the Chevy Volt production prototype, we decided to take our film crew.  We knew we were being pulled into GM’s PR [...]

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