While I’m at the always-entertaining and inspiring TED conference http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010 (about the intersection of Technology, Entertainment and Design) in Long Beach, promoting plug-ins and internal combustion retrofits round the clock, I wanted to take a minute to note a few items: a great short GM video and a milestone test drive session of the Chevy Volt.
WATCH “ELECTRIC VEHICLE THOUGHT LEADERS: The Future of Electric Vehicles (2.5 minutes),GM’s February 2010 video. CalCars’ Felix Kramer gets the first and last quoted comments; includes EV advocate Chelsea Sexton, Electric Power Research Institute’s Mark Duvall, California Public Utilities Commission’s Mike Peevey, Chevrolet General Manager Jim Campbell.
It’s still on the home page at http://www.chevroletvoltage.com/ and its permalinks are http://www.chevroletvoltage.com/index.php/videos/videodirectlink/165-electric-vehicle-thought-leaders-discuss-the-future-of-evs.html and at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3r9Os8VCZQ
MY DREAM STARTS TO COME TRUE: I finally got my first drive of a Chevy Volt. GM’s Volt Vehicle Line Director Tony Posawatz helped put the car through its paces at the TED2010 event in Long Beach, Feb., 9, 2010 — which Posawatz described as the first time the vehicle was demoed to non-insider “civilians” (people outside the auto/media/advocacy communities).
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Source: calcars.org
