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 [...]
Full article →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 [...]
Full article →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 [...]
Full article →“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 [...]
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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 [...]
Full article →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 [...]
Full article →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 [...]
Full article →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 [...]
Full article →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 [...]
Full article →In 1998 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) established a limited set of safety standards for low-speed vehicles (LSVs) intended to apply to vehicles used “to make short trips for shopping, social, and recreational purposes primarily within retirement or other planned communities with golf courses.” To qualify as an LSV, a vehicle must have [...]
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