Driving the EV highway. Sputnik redux -- National insecurity -- Gas costs what? -- Running on empty -- Emissions overload -- Electrons vs. molecules : the economic smackdown -- Trading the oil barrel for the watt bucket -- Zero to sixty : the EV as the economic turbocharger -- So who wants to buy a Texaco station? -- Out in front. Life in the fast lane / Bob Lutz, General Motors -- Success is a team sport / Mike Tinsky, Ford Motor Company; and David Cole, Center for Automotive Research -- Smart money / Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers -- The electric fuel tank / Bart Riley and David Vieau, A123 Systems -- Plugged in / Richard Lowenthal, ChargePoint Network -- Charge America / David Crane, NRG Energy, Inc. -- The smarter grid / Charlie Allcock, Portland General Electric -- National energy / Secretary Steven Chu, U.S. Department of Energy -- Houston, we have a solution / Mayor Annise Parker -- China's charge / Wang Chuan-Fu, BYD Auto -- The road forward. Free gas -- Back to the future -- Energize your motors -- Electric overdrive -- A tale of two cars -- Now what?
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