{"id":714,"date":"2009-12-02T04:21:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pluginamerica.eh\/kids-in-charge\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:59:18","slug":"kids-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluginamerica.org\/kids-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids in Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the persistent notion that kids — as the cliche goes — are our future, I frequently display my Tesla roadster<\/a> (affectionately known as “Tessie the Tesla”) at southern California junior high schools, colleges and high schools. I sometimes present a PowerPoint, sometimes just hand out Plug In America tri-folds and talk to the students or occasionally act as a one-woman panel to answer the kids’ rather spirited questions about the film documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?<\/em><\/p>\n

The one routine that does not vary, of course, is that I always drive and display the Tesla, and the kids are always engaged, fascinated and excited to actually take a peek at what lies inside, under the hood<\/a> and in the trunk. In one fleeting glance their image of an electric car moves from an imagined golf course full of old duffers in carts to a race track. Predictably the most common questions I get are: “Where do you plug it in?” And “Do you need any gas at all?” I then strive to answer the shockingly probing and lightning-quick questions from a heretofore bored group of teenagers (while also striving to wipe drool marks off the glossy surface of my car.) Intelligent questions such as:<\/p>\n