May 14, 2010, CleanTechies
More Electric Cars Roll to the Starting Line: You’ve heard that the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt are on the way, but how about the Think and the Wheego? Wheego, a maker of electric putt-putt vehicles based in Atlanta, hopes that 200 highway-ready copies of its Whip [...]
Full article →By John Collins, jcollins@lowellsun.com, for The Lowell Sun
Updated: 05/15/2010 07:04:00 AM EDT
Dan Enxing, president of Subaru of Nashua in Hudson, N.H., with the Wheego Whip, a two-seat electric vehicle that can go 40 miles on a charge. SUN / JOHN COLLINS
Sun staff photos can [...]
Full article →by Jennifer Palmier for NewsOK, May 15, 2010
Electric vehicle maker Wheego wants to bring a production plant to Oklahoma because of high sales in 2009. But the Atlanta-based company first wants the reassurance of a state tax credit for its customers.
PIEDMONT — Wheego Electric Cars is considering [...]
Full article →TechJournal South, May 6, 2010
NEW YORK – Clean tech grabbed $773.3 million from venture capitalists in the first quarter of 2010, soaring 68 percent from the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.
Clean tech firms did twice as many deals-72-in the quarter as last year.
The recovery for [...]
Full article →by UrvakshKarkaria for AtlanTech, Atlant Business Chronicle, May 4, 2010
Atlanta based Wheego Electric Cars Inc. is raising $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 [...]
Full article →by Josie Garthwaite for Earth2Tech, May 4, 2010
Wheego Electric Cars launched its first model, a low-speed electric two-seater dubbed the Whip, last year. But the tiny 5-person startup aims to start selling a battery powered car capable of highway speeds within a few months. And according to [...]
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