My step-brother Bart Hibbs has worked for Monrovia-based AeroVironment since the day he graduated from Caltech with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1977. Bart is a genius — a font of many forms of knowledge, an inventor, a person with a big heart. He is also one of the world’s leading experts on the troubling issue of getting more out of batteries in order to solve our energy and global-warming problems. But he has never been one to treat himself to many luxuries. Finally, he did — he got in line and put the money down to get a Tesla, the fantastic electric sports car that not only gets over 200 miles on a charge — it goes zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds. He took delivery a few weeks ago, and invited my nephew Drew Cortrite and me up to his Simi Valley home last weekend to drive it. It’s a luxury Bart deserves. If anyone is going to solve the battery problem — getting them cheaper, better, longer-lasting — it may well be him. Meanwhile, he’s got the best and hottest electric going, gorgeous in its Lotus Elise body. Floor that baby and, yowza, that gas-guzzling Corvette you just blew by has got absolutely nothing on you.
I’m happy for Bart. I want him to keep inventing cool things and deserving cool things.
I deserve a Tesla, too, by the way.
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Larry,
So, you’re saying that Bart has been commuting from Simi Valley to Monrovia on a daily basis for HOW many years ?
That’s great that he’s now driving an electric car, but just how many tons of emissions did that incredibly long daily commute put into the air when he was driving a regular car ?
If he were “really” that passionate about reducing all those emissions in the air, wouldn’t he have at some point felt compelled to move to a home which is closer to his place of work ?
By the way, Larry, when can we expect you to start commuting to work on your bike ?
aerovironment, as i noted, is based in monrovia.
it has a simi valley plant. bart’s commute is 5 miles one way.
he previously had an electric kit-car, based on a geo, before the tesla, in which he commuted from his altadena home to monrovia when he used to work at the hq.
Larry,
You cleverly avoided answering my other question.
Larry, when can we expect you to begin commuting to work on your bike, in lieu of driving your car ?
Larry,
Since you’re dodging my question, may we conclude that you don’t intend to commute to work on your bike ?
All that talk about saving the planet…and there you are, living just a few measly miles from your office, and you still refuse to commute on your bike.
What a poseur.
Larry,
Are you still hiding ?
Come on, Larry.
Come out from behind your desk and answer the question about commuting to work on your bike.
This is typical of Larry.
He pontificates that everyone else should do “X,”….and then it turns out that he’s not actually willing to do “X.”
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