According to Newsweek, it's Elon Musk. Best known for founding PayPal, he's also chairman of Tesla Motors. Currently all Tesla offers is the super cool, but also super expensive ($110k) Roadster. Elon claims that within 4 years, however, Tesla will offer a fully electric car for under $30k. I have to think that would be huge for the auto market. That's affordable enough that I have to think that they would be selling faster than they could manufacture them. Particularly if gas prices don't let up. And if they could find a way of building a solar panel into the roof or hood so that it charges itself, that could potentially significantly change the market. Something like these flexible solar panels. And as a side benefit, we could see the end of the hypermiling goofballs.
That being said, I'm still waiting for someone to come along with an electric motorcycle. A quick search yields an ugly bike from Enertia that has a top speed of 50 mph, a maximum range of 45 miles, and costs $15k. Back to the drawing board for this one I think. The only other one I could find was a much better looking bike from Hybrid Technologies but still one with only a 50 mph top speed and I can't find range or price details for the model in the video here. They do offer a much uglier but somewhat more practical bike on their web site that gets up to 70 mph but only has a range of 40 miles and a price tag of $17.5k. It looks like we've still got a long way to go before I'll get to ride an electric bike.
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