19 January 2009

Amory Lovins' think tank spins off a new car company

Via Green Light: The Rocky Mountain Institute, whose chair and chief scientist is TEDTalks star Amory Lovins, this month spun off a car company, Bright Automotive, that's focused on making street-legal all-electric cars.

From the story on Green Light:

Bright Automotive wants to make plug-in hybrids. The cars will go about 30 miles on a charge and 400 miles or so in all with the help from the gas generator. Overall, the cars will get 100 miles an gallon.

The cars will be street and freeway legal. Right now, most of the electric and plug-in cars produced (from companies like Zenn Motors and Miles Automotive) are “limited range, limited speed” vehicles, i.e., they have governors on them that prevent them going faster than 25 or 35 miles per hour.

The Bright Automotive homepage has more details on the team and the vehicles, while the Rocky Mountain Institute homepage has a video interview with Bright CEO John Waters from CNBC.

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11 December 2007

Winning the oil endgame: Amory Lovins

Energy guru Amory Lovins lays out his plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy in the process. It's the subject of his book Winning the Oil Endgame, and he makes it sound fairly simple: On one hand, the deadly risks of continued dependency, and on the other, some win-win solutions. (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, California. Duration: 19:38.)

Watch Amory Lovins's talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances.

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