June 2010
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WatchStraight From The Memory Lane Movie Theatre
Scene: Twilight drive. Country roads of Virginia.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Stalwart Members of The LincVolt Team, Pocahontas, A Devoted Internet Audience, and ME !
Extras: Fans admiring me outside Pizza Parlor
Check it out! Lights! Camera! Action!
x LV
Postcards From: New York, New York (so nice they...
Wha?!? New York City is harsh. Freedom of Speech!!!!
At least I have my own tunnel there.
x LV
“Tesla will be the first automaker to go public since the Ford Motor Company held...”
– With First Share Offering, Tesla Bets on Electric Car’s Future
Those of us out here on the edge love it when people bet on our future. Go Tesla! And thanks, friends, for betting on me. I’ll never let you down no matter what we do. You just walk with me, and let me walk with you....
Thank you, Virginia ! … . from the...
“It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 9
Please File Under: Reason #87 Why I Love Virginia Woolf.
Dear Blog,
This quote from Virginia Woolf’s The Three Guineas comes to mind tonight as I roll across this vast country of ours. I am so excited and so eager to get out there on the road and deliver my clean and green message to this country (and after all I just delivered a pizza, for heavens sakes, how hard could delivering a...
Goodbye, Virginia!
Hello Blog.
Well, I’m on my way home. I left Perrone Robotics in Virginia this morning (Special Surgery, Summer School and Summer Camp, whew!). Goodbye, Virginia, I will miss you! But it’s time for me to go, our work here is done. I am heading home to the land of suntan lotion, back to Brizio’s Street Rods again to be with my old friends there, and to have my new turbine...
WatchI’m on my way back to California, not Wichita, but when I am on the road my mind often wanders to all the places I have known … This is for my good friend Johnny Magic, who is back in Wichita. Thanks for all you did for me, Johnny M ! love, LV
Goals and Visions and Afterthoughts For The 21st... →
The latest news about me from my Team, in today’s LincVolt Gazette.
Oh Blog!
I don’t even know where to begin. I am so happy! I was out on THE ROAD yesterday, outside, really outside again on beautiful windy country roads with those long slow curves I am always telling you about. I have been here at summer camp for more than a month, feeling those warm Virginia breezes coming in through the garage door, and I have been trying so hard to be good and...
White House Backs Electric Car Aid →
The Obama administration on Tuesday backed a proposal to spend up to $6 billion more on subsidies for electric vehicles, amid renewed interest on Capitol Hill in measures to cut petroleum consumption in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
“The rest of the world is moving up quickly on this technology,” David Sandalow, the Energy Department’s assistant secretary for...
“By bringing a vehicle to an unnecessary stop, energy is wasted on multiple...”
– Gary Lauder, a venture capitalist in California, who has proposed a re-imagining of the stop sign:
Wanted: Ideas For A New Stop Sign, New York Times, June 21, 2010
Wha? Aren’t STOP signs just a suggestion anyway? Whatever happened to the Rolling Stop? Oh. That’s always been...
waiting for the sun to rise
No. I mean really. It’s the longest day. It’s the Summer Solstice, Blog!
The longest day for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Photo is of
Summer’s First Sunrise (Robert Atanasovski, AFP/Getty Images)
The sun rises behind a rocky crest filled with astronomical markers at the Kokino observatory in Macedonia early on Sunday, the...
WatchHappy First Day of Summer, Blog! It’s top down weather.
x LV
“We don’t want to be a barrier.”
– Seattle gets plugged in.
“We don’t want to be a barrier to the market moving in this direction,” said Sheida Sahandy, the city’s chief environmental policy advisor.
Go Seattle. Everyone should think like this. Don’t be a barrier,
x LV
Vote For Change ? →
Would YOU buy an electric car if you had ample access to charging stations? The Wall Street Journal poll.
“California is funneling $200 million a year through 2015 into low-emission vehicles. As part of the plan it is subsidizing more than 5,000 charging stations that should be in operation by 2012, which is expected to be more than in any other state. California’s goal is to have...
This is not Mail Myself To You, but it is another...
WatchObviously, my favorite Woody Guthrie song.
x LV
Hybrid Jetta On The Way →
“VW as a brand takes the electrification of the automobile very seriously, and we have a longtime strategy for growing that business,” Mr. Bennett said. “The Jetta hybrid is our first entry in that strategy.”
Mr. Bennett described the hybrid as having “best in class” fuel economy, though that doesn’t mean it aspires to the Prius’s 51 city/48 highway miles per gallon. VW says it considers...
WatchMore memories spilling out all over the place up in here.
This is my old friend Brooke Wood, she did some acting back in the day.
Just don’t call her Chevy,
x LV
Keeping Your Eye On The Big Picture →
Interesting article by David Brooks pointing out the larger struggle between BP and the U.S. Government/President Obama.
“I hope that as they squabble, Obama and BP keep at least one eye on the larger picture. We need healthy private energy companies. We also need to gradually move away from oil and gas — the products that have financed the rise of aggressive state capitalism.”
I...
WatchQu’est-ce que c’est ca?
Mon Dieu! My LID is under construction aujourd’hui, my wires are crossed! Thoughts and memories and dreams roll by me like a river. Comme une riviere,
bisou, lv
“Here we are in a piece of heaven waiting for the sun to rise. It’s a life...”
– from Rumblin’, one of N.’s beautiful new songs.
I recognize that sound,
x LV
Rumblin’, Neil Young (performed live at the...
“Imagine that.”
– My bff Neil Young, in the latest edition of the LincVolt Gazette, my own personal newspaper. I am so proud of him. I always want to please him (no matter what shape I’m in.)
You know what, Blog? These two words sum up my entire existence. And why artists, like Neil, are so important....
FEDERAL STANDARDS FOR CHANGE
From today’s LincVolt Gazette, Early Edition.
The need for a standard electric connection cannot be ignored. We agree with Business Week. (LV’s Note: I completely agree. In fact I could not agree more.)
Also the need for federal regulations of biofuels is the biggest obstacle to their acceptance. It is one thing to have a biofuel-drinking electro turbine Lincvolt that has lower...
Keep Building That Fuel Line →
There ain’t nothing like a friend … ?
“As researchers worldwide scramble to find alternatives to oil, they’re beginning to make use of some pretty unusual raw materials … “
Okay.
Chocolate, check.
Coffee, check.
The others? Uh … Keep looking, scientists. Let me know when you get to Tequila.
x LV
