Gristmill reports that Remy Chevalier, editor-at-large for Electrifying Times, is going to kick off a trip down Route 66 in an electric car.
Here are Chevalier's goals:
- Encourage Toyota to produce a hybrid version of their Scion xB.
- Promote Electrifying Times magazine and shoot a lot of great photography.
- Find perfect spots to install EV chargers all along Route 66 (see map here that appears to have been loaned from Route 66 artist Bob Waldmire) so future tourists can travel the entire length of the old route with an EV or plug-in hybrid.
Go to Chevalier's Web site here for the details and all the stops he and his crew will make on the Mother Road. The tour begins in earnest May 13 in Joliet, Ill.