[ausev] Brian Lasseter (and AustinEV) in the news

[Rob]

http://www.youtube.com/v/Cxt5eG-uRXE


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Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:25 PM
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Here's the text of a story I found. Mark W.



Mixed reaction to rising gas prices in Austin


09:24 PM CDT on Friday, May 9, 2008


By SHELTON GREEN
KVUE News


Climbing gas prices have one sect of our community lamenting the phenomenon
and another singing its praises.


Record breaking gas prices have many local cab drivers changing the way they
do business. For example, the cabbies parked in front of the downtown Hilton
say on any given Friday afternoon you could usually find them driving around
looking for fares. But soaring gas prices are now forcing them to park and
wait for passengers to come to them.


Daniel Ogwuu, an Austin cab driver for eight-years sat with his engine off
meaning he had no air-conditioning in 96-degree temperatures.


"By sitting down this way you have to spend more hours.  Instead of
finishing a 12-hour shift you still have to stay about two or three more
hours to achieve your goals.


Across town, Brian Lasseter, an IBM engineer is not phased by the rising gas
costs. That's because the member of Austin E.V., E.V. standing for electric
vehicles, just completed revamping a 2002 Saturn into a fully, efficient
electric car.


"We hear people talking about dependence on foreign oil like it's something
you can't do something about and we looked around and said sure we can do
something about it" says Lasseter.


The engineer spent $20,000 revamping the Saturn, a car which can get up to
100-miles an hour and run for 40 to 50-miles without being charged.


Lasseter says the non-profit group Austin E.V. has been getting more and
more inquiries from people who want to know more about building their own
electric vehicles.



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Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 20:05:21 -0500
From: achoate at gmail.com
To: ausev at austinev.org
Subject: [ausev] Brian Lasseter (and AustinEV) in the news

Hello all,

Brian Lasseter was excited to finally get to show his new Saturn conversion
off by displaying it at the IBM employee car show today.  Then, in a
completely unrelated but convenient coincidence he got to keep his AustinEV
uniform on later this afternoon to participate in a story for KVUE.

If the story makes it to air it should be on at 10 tonight.  I am interested
to see how it turns out and hope you can all tune in.

Cheers,

Aaron Choate

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