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During Lisa Margonelli’s “Can Your Car Change The World?” talk at the Green Drive Expo in Richmond, CA on Saturday, an audience member stood up and gave the most amazing testimony. The woman said that she wanted to make a difference in the world, and so bought two Chevy Volts – one for herself and one to give away to a low-income family.
The wheels for this double-Volt purchase were set into motion March 2003, when the U.S. military invaded Iraq. The woman – who wants to remain anonymous and asked that we call her “Sam” – told AutoblogGreen that, “I was devastated, I was distraught. Nobody understands the depths to which I felt the pain of that. I don’t read the newspaper, I don’t listen to talk radio but for some reason my gut told me it was about oil. March 2003 is so critical to this story, because that’s where all my passion comes from. It was killing me.”
After the Iraq war started, Sam became fascinated by solar transportation, and her first response was to get an electric scooter, the Zapino. A few years later, she put solar panels on her house and charged the EV that way. The trouble was, the Zapino isn’t the most practical vehicle.
“I used to fall off the Zapino all the time, really funny falls,” she said. “But this year, I fell good enough that I said, ‘That’s it.’ That got me off the scooter and into the next phase, [buy a plug-in] car and give it away to a family in need and get them off expensive gasoline.”
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