DRIVE it forward?? If he really wanted to help turn things around and perhaps keep ocean levels down he might consider this sort of startup as a good place to put $$, or perhaps he could just buy it up and make it his own, either way the environment wins. Of course, if you are going down the road and your windshield turns blue with some cryptic warning it could be a problem.
http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=1294Open Access Article Originally Published: July 20, 2007
These three gentlemen have a secret. They are planning to bring affordable electric cars to the rest of us.
The group that is working to bring Mexico City a thousand or more converted electric Nissan Tsurus (See "Viva la R-EV-olucion!"), is also quietly working on a new program, this one tailored specifically for United States drivers. While I am not at liberty to disclose all the details of the program, Electro Autos Eficaces de Mexico's representatives have granted me permission to release some generic information about it.
Victor Juarez and Xavier Niebla, who is one of the partners in EAE in Mexico City, were in Portland last week to arrange for MetricMind, a small, but highly-respected conversion shop, to convert what Juarez describes as a "modern, 3,000 pound, four door, family sedan with full services" from gasoline to all-electric drive. And it won't be a bare bones model like the Tsuru's in Mexico City. It will have the usual options most U.S. drivers have come to expect in an automobile: air conditioner, power steering, power brakes, electric door locks, stereo sound system.