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Film director Chris Paine: The electric car gets its revenge
Fri, Sep 03 2010 at 2:41 PM EST
'Who Killed the Electric Car?' was a massive hit in 2006, chronicling the inglorious crushing of the General Motors EV1 (and the hopes of green car advocates). Now Paine is back with 'The Revenge of the Electric Car'.
Motivational speaker likes the Nissan Leaf so much he's now a car salesman
Wed, Sep 01 2010 at 11:12 AM EST
Plug-In America Vice President Paul Scott is an evangelist for electric cars. Now he's going to be selling them on the floor of Santa Monica Nissan.
GM gets serious about recycling and its zero waste goal
Fri, Aug 27 2010 at 4:22 PM EST
In a bid to be zero-waste at half its worldwide plants by the end of the year, General Motors is putting a lot of recycled product back into its cars.
California (and Costco?) to spend millions on new electric vehicle charging stations
Wed, Aug 25 2010 at 11:40 AM EST
The 1,300 old EV chargers in California are obsolete tech, but the future is looking bright. Jim Motavalli on why Costco should take note.
David Noon's electric vehicle conversions for the Hawaiian Islands
Thu, Aug 19 2010 at 11:03 AM EST
Maui has a guy who'll convert any car to electric (a Porsche Boxster, a 1950s Studebaker, even a Hummer). Our auto blogger travels to Hawaii to pay him a visit.
Chelsea Sexton: Early adopters will snap up electric vehicles
Tue, Aug 17 2010 at 9:10 AM EST
A big uncertainty for the early EV market is how many buyers are out there. Consultant Chelsea Sexton (best known for her role in 'Who Killed the Electric Car?') says early adopters will snap them up.
Meet Tom Gage, the man who could have founded Tesla (but had other ideas)
Sat, Aug 14 2010 at 8:42 AM EST
Tom Gage was one of the creators of the high-performance electric TZero, the car that inspired the Tesla Roadster. But he didn't want to be a carmaker. Instead, he created BMW's Mini E, and now is looking to China.
Iceland: Here we are, plug us in
Wed, Aug 11 2010 at 12:18 PM EST
Iceland -- with renewable energy almost too cheap to meter and a small, tech-savvy population -- is the perfect candidate for electric cars. The challenge is to get the world to pay attention.
Want a cheap electric vehicle? Head west, my friend
Fri, Aug 06 2010 at 11:03 AM EST
Like nowhere else, the early adopter state of California is subsidizing electric cars and the chargers they'll need to plug into. It's one more reason to move to the Golden State.
The electric vehicle that is not to be: Carmaker lacks connections, gives up
Tue, Aug 03 2010 at 12:37 PM EST
Barry Bernsten tried to launch a battery car company with high hopes and big dreams, but he says he didn't have the right friends in Washington.
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Jim Motavalli
Transportation Blogger
Member since August 2008
Jim is a freelance journalist, speaker, book author, radio personality and expert on all things environmental.
 
Jim blogs weekly for The New York Times, is a regular contributor to The New York Times’  "Automobiles" section, and has a weekly syndicated "Wheels" column. He also contributes to The Daily Green. He writes “Green Living” for the Environmental Defense newsletter and has contributed to Men's Journal, AMC Outdoors, Popular Mechanics, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Review, Salon, Grist, The Guardian, Tomorrow Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Sierra and many other newspapers, magazines, and websites. He is a two-time winner of the Global Media Award from the Population Institute, and has shared his environmental expertise in radio interviews across the country.
 
His books include Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery,Forward Drive: The Race to Build "Clean" Cars for the Future and Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change.
 
An , Jim is as comfortable lecturing at environmental conferences or academic gatherings as he is addressing the general public. His speeches are provocative and relevant.
 
Jim spent 14 years as editor of , a national bi-monthly where he now contributes as a senior writer. He has also served as executive editor for New Mass Media and edited an alternative news weekly. He is a member of the Society for Environmental Journalists (SEJ) and has taught journalism at Fairfield University and University of Connecticut. He hosts a bi-weekly public affairs and music radio show on listener-sponsored WPKN-FM.

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