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Enthusiasm electric!

Electric Auto Association

On Saturday, January 28, over 150 members attended the official annual meeting and ride-and-drive at Aptera headquarters in Carlsbad, over 100 staying for dinner. Many of the chapter members are very involved in teaching and certifying service and maintenance technicians for light electric vehicles.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Felix and I might differ on that -- Felix and I were talking the other day -- but we dont expect the battery and the battery maintenance to be part of the ownership cost of your car. But most importantly, he insisted, "We need to give you all the batteries that you would expect to get in a car, thats 100,000 or 150,000 miles.

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