And away Wheego!
by Steve Hanley, Providence Automotive Examiner, September 25, 2009 Wheego wants to be your electric LSV car company. With a brash marketing campaign that dares its customers to “Drive Change”, I prefer to think of this company as more of an up-start than a start-up. But first, what the heck is an LSV, anyway? In 1998, NHTSA set up rules for a class of Low Speed Vehicles. These rules allow an LSV to drive on any street with a posted speed... [Read More...]
The Nuts and Bolts of Wheego’s Electric Car
by Chris Dannen, Fast Company, Thu Sep 24, 2009 This week I had the privilege of test driving Wheego’s low-speed electric vehicle, the Whip, which costs about $12,500 after a $7,500 tax credit that expires this year. The Whip isn’t meant for highway duty; it uses relatively short-range lead acid batteries and is designed for around-town driving totaling around 5,000 miles per year. But next year Wheego will roll out a similar car with... [Read More...]
Meet the Wheego Whip: A New EV for 2010
By Jim Motavalli, BNET Automotive, Sep 17, 2009 Meet the new star in the EV firmament, the Wheego Whip. That’s a fairly fanciful name for a remarkably capable vehicle build by Wheego Electric Cars, headed by former EarthLink President Mike McQuary (just one of many former Internet players now involved in plug-in cars). According to McQuary, Wheego raised $1.2 million in August from existing investors and is expecting $1.3 million more from “new... [Read More...]
Electric Cars in OK
KSBI-TV 52, Oklahoma – “Oklahoma is absolutely the sooner state in being out in front of every other state in the country by offering economic incentives to get their citizens driving electric,” said Wheego CEO Mike McQuary. Oklahomans could soon be driving these Wheego Whips around town. Thanks to a state and federal tax credit, Oklahomans can now get the car for about 3 thousand dollars. So with that I decided to take the car for... [Read More...]
Electric car made ‘as logical as possible’
Associated Press, Forbes By MURRAY EVANS OKLAHOMA CITY — Turn the key on the Wheego Whip to start the engine, and it sounds like nothing has happened, although it has. Drive it around with the window open and ambient sounds – everything but the engine – fill the ears. Mike McQuary, the chief executive of Atlanta-based Wheego Electric Cars Inc., said Tuesday he hopes the quiet car is among the vehicles that will help wean the U.S.... [Read More...]
Wheego raising $2.5 million
Atlanta Business Chronicle - by Urvaksh Karkaria Staff Writer Wheego Electric Cars Inc. is raising $2.5 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The company, steered by former EarthLink Inc. president Mike McQuary, raised $1.2 million in August and launched the Whip — a two-seater electric car, this month. The Atlanta-based startup, spun out from Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles (RTEV) in 2009, will initially sell... [Read More...]
Oklahoma company to assemble, sell electric cars
by Murray Evans, Associated Press -Monday September 14, 2009, 7:48 PM - OKLAHOMA CITY – Officials from companies based in Oklahoma and Georgia plan on Tuesday to discuss an agreement under which all-electric, street-legal, low-speed vehicles will be assembled and sold in Oklahoma. The agreement between AMP Control Inc. of Piedmont and Wheego Electric Cars Inc. of Atlanta will be the focus of a news conference at the state Capitol. Under the... [Read More...]
WHEEGO ELECTRIC CARS SIGNS AMPCONTROL AS PREMIERE OKLAHOMA DEALER
ATLANTA (September 10, 2009) – WHEEGO ELECTRIC CARS, manufacturer of all-electric street legal LSVs (Low Speed Vehicles), today announced it has signed AMPCONTROL, Inc as its dealer with exclusive rights to sell the Wheego Electric Car product line throughout the state of Oklahoma. AMPCONTROL plans to open a Wheego assembly plant in Oklahoma to meet the expected high demand for Wheego cars. The Wheego Whip LSV qualifies for both the Oklahoma State... [Read More...]
Wheego’s All-Electric Solution for Vehicle Fleets
By Sarah Terry-Cobo, GreenBiz.com Published September 10, 2009 It won’t go zero to 60, but it will go for 40 miles on a single charge. The Wheego Whip zoomed around the City by the Bay on September 2, with a test drive tackling San Francisco’s steep hills and narrow dead-end streets. The all-electric low-speed vehicle is headed to dealerships on Friday, September 4th, and retails for just less than $19,000. With federal and state incentives,... [Read More...]
Wheego joins the ranks of electric car startups
Grist By Todd Woody September 9, 2009 A traffic jam is developing on the electric highway. A decade after General Motors killed the electric car, big automakers and startups are revving up to put battery-powered vehicles on the road over the next couple of years. One of the latest entrants is Wheego, an Atlanta company that is about to launch the Whip—a tiny low-speed “neighborhood electric vehicle” that will be upgraded in 2010 to a full-speed,... [Read More...]