Green Options

Editor’s Note: This is a guest contribution by Nancy Gioia, Ford’s Director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs.

It’s clear electric vehicles (EVs) will be part of the transportation mix of the future.

President Obama has set ambitious goals for wide-scale adoption of EV technology. Advances in battery technology will help bring more electrified vehicles to market for consumers and the desire to reduce CO2 emissions has increased attention on transportation alternatives like electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.

[image via Gaetan Lee]

There was a fantastic article by Peter Asmus in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle about a new movement towards alternative energy. It talks about people who are tired of rising oil and natural gas prices and of their effect on our environment. Rather than waiting for utility companies to come around, these folks are opting to generate their own energy using sources like solar power, small wind turbines and electric cars that give back to the grid.

You’ve heard of the locavore. Well, it’s time to meet the “locavolts!”