During the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica, I spoke with Don Alexander, owner of Euro Taxi of Santa Monica, another business offering green transportation throughout the LA region. With help from Clean Energy, Euro Taxi offers even more alternative fuel choices for concerned consumersnow with ...

Y Fray has been a limo driver for over 20 years. Passionate about the environment, she decided to do her part and started EcoLimo, a company offering ecological chauffeured transportation in Loas Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, DC. During the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica, ...

Actor and activist Ed Begley, Jr. has been an ardent advocate for the environment for nearly 40 years, long before it was politically correct. During the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica, I spoke with him about his passion and committment to green living, as well as ...

As goes the consumer, so goes General Motors. That really was the message I got after speaking with GM’s Clay Okabayashi during the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo. The bottom line is that it’s the consumer driving the decision making at the largest automobile manufacturer when it comes ...

It’s a novel concept — pay only for the time you use a car. That’s the business model of Flexcar, whose motto is to revolutionize transportation across America, one neighborhood at a time. I spoke with company representative Walter King, during the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo to ...

JoAnn Armenta is the Southern California coordinator for Clean Cities Coalition, a program administered by The Partnership. Its mission is to advance the nation’s economic, environmental, and energy security by supporting local decisions to adopt practices that contribute to the reduction of petroleum consumption. Clean Cities carries out ...

Los Angeles-based Left Coast Conversions is the brainchild of Gadget, the company’s chief tech dude, who started the endeavor because of his passion for a cleaner, more self-reliant world. His company’s motto: “converting the world, one EV at a time.”
I caught up with him at the Alternative ...

You may have seen them on the roadways of North America: Natural Gas Vehicles or NGVs. They look like any other vehicle. The difference is, NGVs operate on natural gas as opposed to the fuel we typically pump into our vehicles’ tanks. While increasing numbers of environmentally-sensitive consumers ...

“Green tech is the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century,” says CalCars.org’s Felix Kramer. I spoke with Kramer at the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo in Santa Monica, Calif., about the promise of PHEVs and “plugging in,” the non-partisan group Set America Free and what else ...

Solar Electrical Systems is providing ways of getting us off the power grid and helping us become energy independent through residential, municipal, agricultural and commercial solar power systems. While at the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo in Santa Monica, Calif., I spoke with Matt Ferrari about the company ...

The Universal Electric Vehicle Corporation unveiled its Electrum Spyder during the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo in Santa Monica, Calif. The company combines design and engineering to develop high quality, innovative, zero-emission, all electric transportation for consumers and municipalities that not only look cool, but are fun ...

While at the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo, I had the opportunity to eavesdrop on a conversation between former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and Dick Messer, director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, (a favorite place of mine in L.A.). Afterwards, Dave and I ...

At the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo in Santa Monica, Calif., alternative transportation vehicles using a variety of propulsion technologies were on display, including the ZX40 All Electric Vehicle, distributed in California by Miles Automotive Group. The vehicle is primarily used for campus fleets, traveling at speeds no ...