[ausev] Plug In Parnter's Event

[Marc Kohler]

James Woolsey, Chelsea Sexton to Speak at Plug-In Partners Event



Thursday, June 29

7:00 pm

Town Lake Center

1st Floor Assembly Room

721 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas 78704

(Free parking in garage behind the building)





James Woolsey, former head of the CIA, will be in Austin on June 29th to
speak at an event sponsored by the City of Austin's Plug-in Partners
Initiative.



Woolsey headed the CIA during the Clinton administration and is a leading
voice for American energy independence as well as a strong advocate for
manufacture of plug-in hybrid vehicles.



Chelsea Sexton is a former electric car specialist with GM, current
Executive Director of Plug-In America and is featured in the soon to be
released movie Who Killed the Electric Car.



There will also be a status report on the Plug-In Partners Campaign.



Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) would allow vehicles to be charged in a
standard electric socket and then can range from 20 to 60 all-electric
miles. Mass manufacture of such vehicles would:

  a.. reduce dependence on imported oil;
  b.. decrease greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles;
  c.. lower fuel costs for consumers and businesses.


Attend the June 29 event to learn more about how the City of Austin is in
the forefront of advancing this important new technology nationwide.  An
Austin produced video on PHEVs will also be shown at this event.



Woolsey and Sexton will also be available to the media June 29 at 3:00 pm in
the City Hall press room, first floor.





"We've got a coalition of tree huggers, do-gooders, sodbusters, hawks, and
evangelicals." James Woolsey at kickoff of Plug-In Partners campaign in
Washington D.C. January 24, 2006



Attached is a list of supporters for the Plug-in Partners Campaign.



**Please forward to all interested parties**



Lisa Braithwaite

Plug-in Partners National Campaign

Austin Energy

512-322-6511