I work for Tesla, Inc.
Oh wow! They are working on some very cutting edge things like energy storage and electric cars.
Yes, we are trying to save the world with our cars.
People have been trying to make electric cars since the 1880's. It sounds hard.
The oil industry always tried to kill the electrical car idea.
Do you think everyone would switch to electric cars over gas powered ones?
Yes, absolutely.We are going to save the planet with that move.
Electric car
An electric car is an automobile that is propelled by one or more electric motors, using energy stored in rechargeable batteries. The first practical electric cars were produced in the 1880s. Electric cars were popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century, until advances in internal combustion engines, electric starters in particular, and mass production of cheaper gasoline vehicles led to a decline in the use of electric drive vehicles.
From 2008, a renaissance in electric vehicle manufacturing occurred due to advances in batteries, illnesses
Zero prototype, the car that inspired the Tesla Roadster (2008).
The suspects Oil companies.
The oil industry, through its major lobby group the Western States Petroleum Association, is brought to task for financing campaigns to kill utility efforts to build public car charging stations. Through astroturfing groups like "Californians Against Utility Abuse" they posed as consumers instead of the industry interests they actually represented.
Mobil and other oil companies are also shown to be advertising directly against electric cars in national publications, even when electric cars