Plug It In my Friend! ReChargeIT!
10 year old Silicon Valley Startup: 1
110 year old Detroit Auto Industry: 0
Well at least somebody is concerned with getting the electric vehicle off the ground. In a recent post on Google’s blog, they have been partnering with a few other silicon valley startups to get electric vehicles into the mainstream faster than the US auto industry seems to want to do:
We’ve been working with Google engineers and Hymotion/A123Systems to build a small fleet of plug-in hybrids, adding an external plug and additional batteries to a regular hybrid car so that it runs on electricity with gasoline (or even better, biofuels) to extend the driving range for longer trips.