Workshop Features Trends in Green Transportation
May 22, 2009
Nick Patrinos / Milwaukee Area Technical College
Scott Emalfarb (right), founder of Carbon Day in Chicago, shows a charging station for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle to Eric Powers, founder of Madison’s Hybridfest Green Drive Expo.
Workshop features trends in green transportation
Since July, Francis X. Vogel of Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood has been driving what he thinks is a car of the future.
Vogel, executive director of Wisconsin Clean Cities-Southeast Area, is the owner of what’s believed to be the only plug-in hybrid vehicle in southeastern Wisconsin, and one of just a handful across the state.
“I’m honored that my family is one of the only ones in the nation, and probably in the world, to own a plug-in hybrid at this time.”
The father of two girls added, “I’m probably the only one with a baby seat and a booster seat in the back seat. This is about the next generation. I feel very honored to be really on the edge of something that is to come, but I get to live it now.”
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