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Showing posts with label Transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transportation. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Silicon Valley and the Electric Car

Mainstream media (CBS's 60 Minutes) covers the race for the electric car, featuring the Tesla, GM's Volt, and other plug-in-hybrids and electric cars.



Maybe its just my personal bias but GM and Detroit seems to be taking an arrogant and ostritch-in-the-sand approach to this! Lets see in 2-3 years whose cars are selling more, Mr. Lutz and company!

Aside from the question of whether it is affordable to all (it is not!), The Tesla Roadster is one sweet-looking car! :) Perhaps, timely to share also this interview with Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, who made his fortune as co-founder of PayPal and is also the founder behind SpaceX (a space-transportation company) and Solar City (the #1 residential installer of solar in California, which is the #1 state in the US for solar installations.)



Aside from the question of whether it is affordable to all (it is not!), The Tesla Roadster is one sweet-looking car! :)

My previous posts on the subject:
Inevitable and essential

Think, then drive!

Coming soon to a dealer near you

Can America(ns) change?

Cars that pay

and also Hydrogen as a Fuel