- Presenter: Wally Rippel, AC Propulsion
- Description: Until very recently, Wally Rippel (rhymes with ‘bell’) worked for Tesla Motors, manufacturer of the highly acclaimed Tesla Roadster electric sports car. A long-time proponent of electric vehicles, Rippel served as an engineer for AeroVironment, where he helped develop the EV1 electric car for General Motors and was featured in the documentary movie, Who Killed the Electric Car? Rippel has also worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on electric vehicle battery research, among other projects. In 1968, as a Caltech undergraduate student, he built an electric car (a converted 1958 Volkswagen microbus) and won the Great Transcontinental Electric Car Race against MIT.
- Video Run Time: 55 mins : 31 secs
