Interesting article at cnn.com today about Neil Young hiring a mechanic to make his car so that it will run purely on electricity. Young has “poured $120,000 into the project” so far. The experiment seems to be making some serious advances:

… the prototype power system worked during a 12-mile test drive of the car last week — albeit with a few glitches “She was awesome,” Young said of the battery-operated car. “Her acceleration was incredible, she moved with hardly a sound; it was so quiet we could hear the wind through the tags of other cars.” The drive almost ended in disaster when Goodwin, who controls acceleration with a knob in the back seat, twisted it the wrong way while approaching an entrance ramp and the vehicle lurched toward the rear of another car. Young, in the passenger seat, was able to hit the brakes in time. “Still needs work,” said Goodwin, 37.

Kudos to Neil Young. But aren’t there car companies out there with billion-dollar budgets who should be making this happen? Is a rock musician really going to be the one to finally get this figured out?