A car that makes you Feel Good
As mentioned, I had a story published today on a Toronto-based company called Feel Good Cars Inc., which is getting ready to manufacturer its first batch of 2,000 low-speed electric vehicles. These little cars kinda look like Smart cars but you can plug them into your wall and charge them overnight. They only go 40 km/h but that’s not bad if you only use them for sidestreets and urban driving. Unfortunately, they’re banned for public use in Ontario. I wish the politicians here would wake up and start promoting, rather than rejecting, these clean driving alternatives. I say offer purchase incentives, and give these cars a right-of-way on busy downtown streets during rush hours, similar to taxi and transit lanes. Maybe then more people will be encouraged to buy them and over time we’ll see less downtown smog and haze during summer rush hours.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca