Miss Electric Featured on EVCast
October 29th, 2009 // 7:37 am @ Miss Electric
Miss Electric (aka Shannon Arvizu) is featured on this week’s EVCast (“Electric Penetration,” Episode #283). Listen in for the latest analysis and commentary on electric vehicle news. We discuss Fisker’s recent announcement that they will purchase a retired GM plant in Delaware and Bloomberg’s ridiculous article on electric utilities involvement in the EV industry. Also [...]
Category : Miss Electric On the Road
EV Action at 2009 Tokyo Auto Show
October 20th, 2009 // 7:13 am @ Miss Electric
Several new electric vehicles will be on display at this year’s Tokyo Auto Show, some of which are intended to go into production in the very near future. Others are still concept cars. But which concept cars will most likely go into production? As for cars slated for production, they include Toyota’s long-awaited Plug-In Prius. [...]
Category : Rockstar EV Events
Miss Electric Speaks at Columbia University
October 9th, 2009 // 9:43 am @ Miss Electric
This past Monday, I presented a talk entitled, “Greening the U.S. Auto Sector: The Plug-In Vehicle Movement,” at Columbia University. The talk was scheduled as part of an “Activism and Politics” workshop at the Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy. The paper I presented is a chapter from my Ph.D. dissertation that explains the [...]
Category : Miss Electric On the Road
Nissan Leaf Viral Video Action….or Is it?
October 7th, 2009 // 10:04 am @ Miss Electric
My good friend, Jim Motavalli, posted this video today on the New York Times automotive blog. While the video itself is informative and well-designed, I wouldn’t exactly call it “viral excitement.” If I were part of the Zocalo Group (the social mdia firm with the Nissan Leaf account), I would have created something much different [...]
Category : Marketing EVs