Hemmings Find of the Day – 1980 Bernardi

Don’t ask me why, but I’ve noticed that when people decide to convert a gasoline-powered vehicle into an EV, they often choose very offbeat vehicles, either kit cars or low-production cars. That’s why it doesn’t surprise me much that somebody chose this 1980 Bernardi for sale on Hemmings.com as the basis for an EV conversion. […]

Promoting plug-ins: $4,000,000 per car

It’d be nice if, when we all agreed there was a problem that we could also all agree on what to do about it. Like oil. We don’t know anyone who says that using a lot of Middle Eastern oil is good. But we don’t really know any two people who agree on a solution, […]

Steinmetz’s electric before the Steinmetz Electric

While in and around Albany last week to visit the Ford hydroelectric plant on Green Island, I took the opportunity to head over to Schenectady to investigate something I had read on Make just a few days prior: an electric car that was once owned by Charles Steinmetz.
As presented by Make, a couple of the […]