Coming soon to a dealer near you

.. the Electric Car, Tesla... if nothing else, the car sure has oomph! Its good to see an electric car back on the road but at 98 grand, I think its going to be just a show-off toy for the rich to feel green!

More about Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) some other time but for now read the following recent news articles about the Tesla.

Tesla Roadster to Make First Road Trip - aug 14, 2007

Eberhard Out as Tesla CEO - aug 12, 2007

Also a few related recent articles:

An electric car for the common man - aug 13, 2007

Once either expensive or slow, Miles Ruben of Miles Automotive Group is hoping to bring a $30,000, 80-mph battery-powered sedan to market by 2009

Norway's Think's zippy little Web-enabled, carbon-free electric car could help reverse 100 years of automotive history - aug 1, 2007

The Electric car opportunity - a post at Green Wombat, a great blog which focuses on "technology + environment" - july 31, 2007

Update: I just realized after compiling this post that I had already alluded to the Tesla in a previous post titled "Cars that pay", which was about a neat novel concept I had heard in July - V2G i.e. vehicle-to-grid

And here is another unrelated but interesting snippet of news about renewable energy sources.

Cilion, the corn ethanol startup backed by Khosla Ventures and Richard Branson's Virgin Fuels, has turned to a veteran oil industry executive to lead the California company. Former BP (BP) group vice president Mark Noetzel was named Cilion's new CEO and a member of its board. While at BP in London, Noetzel ran the oil company's retail, fuels transport and wholesaling operations in Asia, Europe and the United States.