" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Bradley Berman is the editor of PluginCars.com. Brad writes about alternative energy cars for The New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Reuters and other publications. He is quoted in national media outlets, such as CBS News, ABC News, CNBC, CBC, and MarketWatch. Mr. Berman is a tireless researcher of the green car market. He is the transportation editor at Home Power magazine, and is the founder/director of AutoFutureTech, an industry conference affiliated with the Globe Conference on Business and the Environment in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Brian Beck has worked for over 20 years in various engineering and business development roles. He started his career at North Telecom where he helped build some of the first North American fiber optic networks, and later in his career moved on to work on renewable energy solutions with a specialty in clean vehicle technologies. Most recently Brian joined the Sustainability Group at the City of Vancouver to lead greenhouse reduction and climate change adaptation initiatives within the City operations and in the community. One of Brian’s lead projects at the City is enabling the early adoption of light duty electric vehicles to replace combustion engines.
" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Darell is a bicycle-riding, EV-driving, LED-lighting fool.
Darell has been driving a production EV as his family's main automobile since the EV1. His 2002 Toyota Rav4EV is still the family's daily driver, and for a short time he owned a Ford Ranger EV. Darell has driven almost every production EV that has existed in the US, and many that are still in prototype. All told, Darell has well over 100,000 EV miles under his belt. Electricity for home and cars come from a roof-mounted 2.5 kW photovoltaic system that was installed in 2003. He is a vocal and passionate proponent of saving energy, of clean energy, and of clean transportation.
Darell created and maintains the EVnut.com web site - a repository for production EV information and home to the most comprehensive Rav4EV FAQ and modification list.
" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Nick is a tireless and passionate next generation car enthusiast. Since 2007 he has written hundreds of posts for outlets such as The New York Times, Motor Trend, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, AutoTrader.com, The Daily Green, HybridCars.com, and Gas 2.0.
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Nick has also been syndicated in dozens of other outlets including the Matter Network, AP, and Reuters. He is recognized widely as a leading thinker and influencer in the world of electric cars and has been an invited guest of many auto manufacturers at major events, an invited speaker at alt-car conferences, and a consultant to help governmental entities figure out how to develop plug-in infrastructure.
Highlights of his career include being invited to be one of the first five Americans in the world to test drive a pre-production Nissan LEAF in Japan as well as being the first individual on the planet to be given the chance to do a full range test of the LEAF. He is also a driving force in the state of Washington to convince politicians to bring electric vehicle infrastructure to rural areas of the state.
Nick currently resides in Central Washington where electricity is 3 cents per kWh and electric cars can be driven for a half a penny per mile on clean hydro power.
" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />received our Nissan LEAF on Jan 19, 2011
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