Hawaii's Hydrogen Fueling Plans Expand

New Hawai'i Sustainable Energy Company to Announce Clean Transportation Breakthrough 

Honolulu, Hawaii - August 13, 2009 - Hawaii alternative energy pioneers Michael Angelo Leone and Sabrina Sirt are set to announce their new clean energy transportation venture "Hawai'i Electric Vehicles" (HIEV). The formal announcement will take place August 20^thnext Thursday 12:00 noon at a combination vehicle/product roll-out, press conference, and community celebration to be held at the Banyan Tree House in Makawao, Maui, Hawaii. The local and state-wide press is cordially invited to attend. (This event is open to the public and prominent local political leaders have been invited.)

Mr. Leone and Ms. Sirt, who happen to be a happily married couple as well as the owners of the Maui-based full-service design firmHawaii Architectural, have been working behind the scenes on this project for several years. They have traveled the world examining the best and the worst of alternative energy and transportation technology and have secured the exclusive Hawai'i representation rights for the most advanced and readily available products in this emerging market.

 "It's time that energy self-sufficiency for Hawai'i stops being a dream and starts to become a reality," says Mr. Leone. His wife and business partner, Ms. Sirt adds, " I truly hope that all supporters of alternative energy will come out next week and help us to 'Cut the Red Tape on Electric Cars in Hawai'i!'"

In recent months the national and local press has been rife with articles and reports on future of electric cars. Many of the so-called 'experts' interviewed for these pieces have called the electric car a solution that will be an important contributor to a green economy, "in the future", not realizing that the future is NOW!

At the roll-out, HIEV will introduce to Hawai'i the Current plug-in electric vehicle which is made in America by Electric City Motors of Parker, Colorado. The Current isn't a toy, a 'city car', or a 'golf cart on steroids', as the public has come to think of electric vehicles. Rather, it is a real car that can out-accelerate a conventional gasoline or hybrid car, can carry four adults in comfort at highway speeds, and easily handle several days of average driving on a single charge. About the only thing it can't do that a conventional car does is stop for gas. Instead, it operates on clean energy for pennies a mile and produces no exhaust, zero carbon footprint is powered by wind and solar power at home.

 The Current, along with an electric SUV and an electric 4x4 pick-up truck, are all in production at Electric City Motors and are available now to car buyers in Hawai'i through HIEV. NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, is negotiating an order with Electric City Motors for EV fleet vehicles to replace their gas fleet vehicles. And NASA people know technology!

The Current will be joined at the roll-out by a display of the best available alternative energy transportation products on the market today, including solar PV and wind turbine powered EV charging stations, and the American made Zero plug-in motorcycle. The engineering students of Seabury Hall School along with community EV owners will have on display several conventional vehicles which they have converted to electric vehicles. 

The Banyan Tree House is located at 3265 Baldwin Ave in Makawao on Maui.

A light lunch and soft drinks will be provided courtesy of HIEV and local vendors and citizens who support this vision of a clean, sustainable, energy-independent transportation future for Hawai'i.

 Test drives of both the Current and the Zero are available to members of the press by appointment.

Contact:
Mark Piscioneri,

Media Coordinator, HIEV
mark@hiev.com
Ph: 808-282-6435