Think, then drive!

...or drive the Think! Had blogged couple weeks back about the upheaval at the electric car maker Tesla but missed this piece of good news!

The Green Wombat enlightens:

Amid the upheaval at Tesla Motors last week, a milestone in the annals of the electric car went largely unnoticed. At Think Global’s factory in the Norwegian countryside, the first of the company’s battery-powered City urban runabouts rolled off the assembly line. A canary-yellow two-seater sporting baby-seal-eye headlights and a bumper-to-roof glass hatch, this first production Think City will go about 112 miles (180 kilometers) on a single charge. It’s zippy, fun to drive and could well be the Honda Civic for the age of global warming.

Read more about the comparison to the Civic and more about the Think story at the article itself. (Also, for more information on the Think's car read the Green Wombat's Business 2.0 magazine feature story on the car.)

Hmm... I used to have a Honda Civic (and an Accord...my first three cars were Hondas until the SO suckered us into buying a VW Passat, which is what we now have.) And some day - next time I shop for cars - I will seriously look at the hybrids, if not an electric vehicle.

Also see my previous posts on the subject: 1, 2, 3, 4