An Excerpt of the interview of Sammy Rogers entitled Riding On Sunshine.

Sammy:

Well, I certainly think there are some people out in the public that are intentionally trying to mislead people about electric vehicles. One of the misconceptions they try to carry you down the road is they try to convince people that charging an electric car will put extra demand on the power grid and that, in essence, it would cause our cost of power to go up because of this.

That’s really not a true statement. We’re always told that there’s nothing free in this world, but I don’t think anybody can argue the point that sunshine is free. I don’t think anybody can do much about cutting it on or off. When it’s there, it’s there. And we can’t do much about it.

So sunshine is free. It’ll cost you some equipment costs to convert it into electricity, but once that’s recovered you have a free energy source that you can charge your electric vehicle and drive it on that energy.

We’re not bound to use oil the rest of our lives. We have other options and people have done a good job at convincing you that’s it’s not possible to do.

However, I’ve been doing it a long time and other people have, too. So another advantage to doing this, of course, if you don’t believe in global warming, that’s OK, but if you do believe in it, we will reduce a lot of CO2 emissions that are coming out tailpipes of your internal combustion engine cars.

And basically, we should improve the quality of the whole atmosphere around our planet. Now, some people don’t believe that and that’s OK. Another thing you’ll be able to do is as oil costs goes up and up, we’ll help reduce the financial burden on you for just driving a vehicle back and forth to work everyday.

Glenn:

That’s pretty significant, Sammy, because this teleseminar is being conducted in June of 2008. For those of you who may be listening to it later, gasoline prices in the U.S. have just topped $4.00 per gallon. So you don’t listen to a news broadcast or pick up a newspaper without seeing the overall effect of what increasing energy prices are doing to us individually and collectively to our modes of transportation.

The price of everything is escalating because of the price of oil.  We see this every day and it is obvious prices will  continue to rise. Actually Sammy is ahead of his time, as we said before and he’s actually living in the future today. So what do you see in the future, Sammy?

Sammy:

Well, I really do see one day that we’ll look back and we’ll say, “Why did people ever drive these internal combustion engine cars? Why did they drive them for the last 80 years? That was really foolish.” But it’s going to be a few years before we’ll look back and ask that question. I really think that’s what the future will look like. If you keep up with the news, it’s almost every day another company is telling about an electric car they’ll start producing.

Now it seems like a lot of talk and no action. And it really has been. Currently there’s really only one electric vehicle that’s available and it’s really out of range for most everybody at $109,000. It’s a great vehicle, but not great for the average American at all. So the really lower?priced vehicles are still not available yet today.

Glenn Seymour

DETROIT, July 7 (Reuters) – General Motors Corp is rushing to finish the production version of its Chevy Volt and plans to unveil a showroom-ready model of the heavily touted electric car in September, people familiar with the project say.

Battered by a deepening slump in sales and concerns about whether it can ride out the downturn, GM is counting on the Volt to break its costly association with gas-guzzling vehicles at a time when truck sales are tumbling and gas prices are near record levels.

GM is likely to complete the production version of the Volt by early August and plans to show it off in September, just when the embattled automaker celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding, people familiar with the plans said.

A GM spokesman declined to comment on the timeline for its next announcements on the Volt, which will include naming a supplier for the vehicle’s lithium-ion battery pack, the single most expensive element of the vehicle and the component seen as critical to its success.

“Everyone is waiting for the next steps,” Rob Peterson, spokesman for GM’s electric vehicle program, told Reuters. GM designers and engineers are “getting very close” to a production-ready version of the Volt, he said.

GM showed off a concept version of the Volt in January 2007 but has retooled the look of the vehicle significantly since then, in part in order to improve its aerodynamics, representatives of the automaker have said.

GM has already shown a near-production version of the Volt to a Los Angeles-area focus group of consumers as it pushes toward production of the vehicle by late 2010 under a development plan the GM board approved in June.

By unveiling the final version of the Volt at a centennial observation in September, GM will be looking to shift the focus for investors and consumers from its current sales slump toward the more fuel-efficient vehicles it has in development.

The automaker, which saw its stock hit a 54-year low last week, is expected to use the circuit of major auto shows that begins with Paris in October to unveil a series of upcoming vehicles that will underscore its effort to move away from a reliance on light trucks.

Those include the production version of the Chevy Beat, a replacement for the Aveo hatchback, and a replacement for the Chevy Cobalt, a small sedan.

VOLT: READY FOR ITS HOLLYWOOD CLOSE-UP

In a further bid to create buzz, the Volt is one of several GM cars set to make an appearance in the action movie “Transformers 2,” scheduled for release next summer, a person familiar with the matter said.

GM was heavily involved in the production of the first Michael Bay-directed “Transformers” film, released last summer, and provided a concept version of its 2009 Camaro for a central turn in the movie.

GM is designing the Volt to run for 40 miles (64 km) on a lithium-ion battery pack that can be recharged at a standard electric outlet. The Volt will also capture energy from braking, like a traditional hybrid, and feature an on-board engine that will be used to send power to the battery on longer trips.

GM is racing Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> to bring the first plug-in car to the marketplace and has already featured the Volt in its advertising, part of a bid to improve the public image of the fuel efficiency of its car line-up.

Just as the Detroit-based automakers once rolled out limited-edition performance cars to create a buzz around their brands, the Volt has emerged as a kind of environmentally friendly “halo car” that GM hopes will have as much impact as the Prius hybrid has had for Toyota.

Two suppliers have been in the running to provide lithium-ion batteries for the Volt: A unit of Korea’s LG Chem <051910.KS> said last month that it was ready to supply batteries for the Volt, and German auto parts supplier Continental AG , adapting battery technology used by privately held A123 Systems, is also competing for the Volt battery contract.

The Volt marks one of the first attempts to adapt lithium-ion batteries, widely used in consumer electronics, for a car, although Toyota and others are pressing ahead with their own work on the same technology.

GM celebrates its centennial on Sept. 16, the anniversary of its founding by Billy Durant. It kicked off a series of events last year to mark the date, but those have been overshadowed by concerns about its performance and whether it has sufficient cash to ride out the downturn in U.S. sales.

GM’s U.S. sales are off 15 percent this year, and analysts expect the automaker to raise additional capital to shore up liquidity as it looks to turn around its U.S. operations.

(Editing by John Wallace)