Tiny Wheego Gets Big Jump on the Electric-Car Competition
by Jim Motavalli for BNET, March 3, 2010 Can an electric vehicle startup with just five employees find success in the cash-intensive, cutthroat automotive world? Maybe, if the five people have deep business experience, a savvy marketing sense and a compelling product. And that just might be the case with Atlanta-based Wheego, which will get a highway-capable electric car on the road as early as June, ahead of Fisker, Coda, Think, GM and Nissan. If... [Read More...]
MNN gets the first drive in the Wheego Whip Life, an affordable electric vehicle
by Jim Motavalli, Mother Nature Network, March 3, 2010 Wheego is a very lean operation, with just five employees. Their new highway-capable electric car can get 90 miles on a charge, will be available this summer, and will sell for $32,000 — but there’s a $7,500 federal tax credit. ATLANTA — It was snowing on Peachtree Street, a very rare event indeed, and I was navigating the wet roads. I was the very first journalist to drive... [Read More...]
GM Invests $246 million in Electric Motors and Components in Baltimore
Environmental Expert.com, February 10, 2010 Source: U.S. Department of Energy – Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy General Motors Corporation (GM) announced on January 26 that it will invest about $246 million in its facilities in Baltimore, Maryland, for manufacturing electric motors and electric drives. This includes construction of a high-volume electric drive production facility at the Baltimore Transmission plant, which will... [Read More...]
Low Speed Vehicle Maker Wheego Whips Its New EV Up To 65 MPH
by Nino Marchetti for Earth Techling, January 27, 2010 Low speed electric vehicle manufacturer Wheego, which recently debuted its Whip EV in dealers across the country, is showcasing at the Washington Auto Show this week a prototype of a “full-speed version” of the Whip. It is called the Whip LiFe and it is said it will price around $32,000 before tax credits and should be available by mid-year. The Whip LiFe, which Autoblog Green covered the... [Read More...]
Freewheeling: Wheego Whip is an electric car for whipping around the neighborhood
BY EVELYN KANTER (MOTOR MATTERS), for Contra Costa Times, November 6, 2009 Wheego Whip is the newest affordable plug-in Electric Vehicle you can buy today that is a real vehicle, not a golf cart with doors that lock. GM’s much-hyped Chevy Volt is still two years away, as is Fisker’s planned $40,000 EV family sedan, and the Tesla Roadster is in the $100,000 neighborhood. This cheeky little four-passenger subcompact is whipping their outlets,... [Read More...]
Electrification: What About Wheego?
by Julie Cridler for IRN, 12/1/2009 The road to auto industry electrification is littered with start-up companies that have aspirations of taking the electric vehicle industry by storm. Some of these companies are paving the way, and others are making mistakes and learning some difficult lessons. Atlanta-based start-up Wheego Electric Cars has taken the challenges of companies that have gone before it and used the lessons learned to create a better... [Read More...]
Pleasant Hill Becomes 4th Bay Area City to Install Coulomb Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles
UPI.com, December 9, 2009 Santa Claus to Unveil New ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations on December 10th The City of Pleasant Hill announced today that Santa Claus will make a guest appearance in his plug-in Prius as he stops by to charge up at Pleasant Hill City Hall. Pleasant Hill has become the fourth Bay Area city to deploy the ChargePoint® Networked Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles (EV). Manufactured by Coulomb Technologies, the... [Read More...]
Wheego Debuts Whip Electric Car in Dealers
by Nino Marchetti for EarthTechling, November 2009 Wheego, one of the many electric car manufacturers striving to get their no-emissions electric vehicle into the hands of consumers, recently announced a sort of “dealer network” of locations around the United States in which to sell its first product. The Whip, as it is being called, should now be on sale via some of these independent dealers now. The auto maker said it had secured 16 locations... [Read More...]
Former Chrysler dealer in Ithaca is first to sell Wheego all-electric car
By Stacey Shackford, Ithaca Journal, Nov. 10, 2009 ITHACA — The Pritchard family has always been proud of its past. As owners of Ithaca’s oldest car dealership, they’ve been selling cars to Ithaca motorists for five generations. Now they are embracing the future, and they believe the future is electric. William T. Pritchard Inc., of 304 S. Cayuga St., is the first dealership in the state to stock the Whip, an all-electric low-speed... [Read More...]
I am riding in an electric car!
by Robert S. Siegel, Mind Your Own Damn Business Politics, Nov. 8, 2009 I wrote much of this post, or I should say I dictated it into my digital recorder, while riding in an electric car. A colleague of mine, Stephen Currie, is the first person in Atlanta to own a Wheego electric car and I am one of his first passengers. The ride is thrilling for its, well……lack of thrill. I expected to feel as though I was riding in a golf cart but riding in... [Read More...]