THE GREEN: PEOPLE & PROFILES

Green Energy Consultant, Chelsea Sexton

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• Who Killed the Electric Car?

BIO

Chelsea Sexton is marketing expert and advocate of alternative fuel vehicles. She became well-known as an advocate for clean, efficient, transportation after joining the General Motors EV1 electric vehicle program, where she focused on building a market for alternate-fuel vehicles through partnerships with corporate and non-profit stakeholders, shaping public policy and incentives, developing marketing strategies, and working directly with the drivers themselves.

When General Motors ended the EV1 program in 2001, Sexton left the company and became a consultant to auto manufacturers and clean energy providers to help bring alternate fuel vehicles to market, as well as increasingly clean ways to power them. In 2005, Sexton joined the X PRIZE Foundation and led the creation of its next prize effort, which will deal with both energy and automobiles.

In her spare time, Chelsea has helped to organize several grassroots campaigns to stop the destruction of various electric vehicles. Currently, she manages an alternative fuel division for the Santa Monica, California, based start-up Zag.com and also serves as the Executive Director of Plug In America, a coalition of individuals and organizations that advocates for the preservation and manufacture of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by assisting policymakers to create mandate and/or incentive plans, working with automakers to encourage production, and through consumer education.

Chelsea Sexton was one of the key individuals interviewed in the 2006 documentary film WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? She is married to Bob Sexton, an EV1 technician and they have a son, Christopher.