EVCast offers up panel of "experts" to take your electric car questions tomorrow
If you'd like to listen to a sort of state of the electric vehicle industry panel discussion, tune in to the EVCast tomorrow. The live show (which will be available later as a podcast and for download) starts at 1:30 Eastern (10:30 am Pacific) on Tuesday. Listeners can tune send in questions and comments on the EVcast.com chat board (free membership is required to participate). The panel will discuss the following topics:
- $25 billion in waiting for EV development. Who should get it and why?
- Has hydrogen as an automotive fuel gone the way of the dinosaur?
- What does the chaos of the US auto industry mean for the up and coming EV industry?
- Mileage Tax: Sensible or not?
As a side note: the reason for the quotes on the headline above is that for some reason I'm included in the EVCast panel. I'm still not sure how much of an expert I am, but I want to make it clear that I'm not slighting the others who are scheduled to appear on the show: Ian Clifford, our old friend and CEO of ZENN, and Gint Federas, an EVCast member. I just hope they don't ask me to sing.
[Source: EVcast]
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Yanquetino 8:14PM (3/02/2009)
Sebastian:
Alas...! I won't be able to tune in to the live broadcast, or I would certainly pose a couple of key questions for Ian Clifford. Just in case Bo and Ryan give those on the panel a chance to ask each other questions, and you wish to voice mine, here they are:
(1) Since Ian Clifford stated nearly a year ago in the ZENN stockholders' meeting that they were in the "advanced stages" of final negotiations with an OEM for the cityZENN, with what OEM have they now signed an agreement?
(2) Likewise, at that same meeting, Ian Clifford stated that ZENN would produce the cityZENN by late 2009, with or without EEStor, i.e., that they would use a lithium ion battery pack instead. Since EEStor failed to fulfil its commitment to deliver a prototype to ZENN by the end of 2008, what battery supplier is now slated to provide the alternative for the cityZENN?
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Sebastian 9:33AM (3/03/2009)
Thanks, I'll ask if given the opportunity.
Sebastian 2:34PM (3/03/2009)
Question posed (at the very end of the show), but no real answer given, Ian just said that the CityZenn is still on target for the end of 2009 (commercializaiton by 2010) and that they expect EESTOR to power it.
Yanquetino 3:56PM (3/03/2009)
Thanks, Sebastian, for posing those questions. I concur that Clifford's responses were "NON-answers."
I mean, what the Hades does it mean to say that last year they were in "advanced stages," but now they are in "very advanced stages" with an OEM for the cityZENN? I suppose that next year he will say that they are in "very, very advanced stages." Then "very, very, very advanced stages" the year after that.
And he sidestepped the issue of a lithium ion substitute entirely. Rather than reassure the public that they are taking steps to produce the cityZENN with or without EEStor, he simply reiterated his "faith" in EEStor.
Is that fish I smell?
TorontoRick 9:59AM (3/03/2009)
Thanks to Yanquetino for asking here the exact same questions I'd like answers to. Thanks to Sebastian Blanco for asking them during the broadcast on our behalf.
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