Chelsea Sexton

Founder, Lightning Rod Foundation

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Marketing expert and advocate of clean efficient transportation, and founder of the Lightning Rod Foundation; former executive director of Plug In America

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Solyndra was the Bay Area maker of solar-panels that went bust despite taxpayer loans from the Obama Administration.  Now Fisker is being called the “Solyndra of electric vehicles.”

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Tesla Motors of Palo Alto makes electric cars, and it's the first American automobile company to go public since the Ford Motor Company started selling shares in 1956.

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