PLUG IN AMERICA

Written by Mike Ryan, Senior Writer

March 1, 2009 4:37 PM AEDT

Billed as the world's greenest procession of its kind, 68 plug-in vehicles paraded through Santa Monica on Jan. 17 to jump start the nation's Presidential inaugural festivities with a message for Congress, Detroit and Barack Obama: America wants plug-in vehicles, the most fuel-efficient cars ever made.

Plug In America is a the non profit organisation leading the US's plug-in vehicle movement. They are asking for one million plug-in vehicles by 2012 and 10 million by 2016. Electric vehicles that took part in the parade included Toyota RAV4 EVs, Tesla Roadsters, a Zero Motorcycle, the AC Propulsion eBox, Vectrix motor scooters, a Balquon 50-ton truck' Phoenix SUTs' Chevy S-10s' a Brammo Motorcycle' a Solectria' prototype of Mitsubishi's iMiEV and Ford's Escape plug-in hybrid (both from Southern California Edison)' EV conversions of a Porsche and Geo Metro' at least three plug-in hybrid Prius conversions' a plug-in hybrid VW Jetta conversion, which has V2G (vehicle to grid) capability to supply stored electricity to the grid.