We have all heard as to how good it is to use ‘green’ energy, from the electric batteries to the renewable ones. The latest one to join up with the all green bandwagon seems to be the singer Neil young. Generally when it comes to a green platform or any issue that seems to raise social consciousness, all that the celebrities do is show up, wave around and go home in their ‘gas polluters’. But Neil young decided to put his money where his mouth is, having invested about $120,000 of his own capital, all for the conversion of his 1959 model into an electric car.

This is a most welcome development and showcases the fact that ‘green energy’ is indeed the way to go forward. The singer plans to use his ‘electric’ car as a model to show the world that mass production of cheap variants of the electric car is a possibility. There are quite a few top companies that have already beat Neil to the finish line by revealing cheap hybrid cars, like the latest one to roll off the ‘Tata’ block. But Neil still plods on, having teamed up with Jonathan Goodwin a mechanic from Wichita with a decided flair for re-engineering the power sections of the big cars in order to increase their horsepower.

Neil Young’s 1959 Lincoln Continental convertible is undergoing a transformation of sorts and should become operational at the earliest. Electrical cars are great as they glide along on battery power but one of the major hiccups has been the battery issue. Since there are not that many shops that sell batteries for an electrical car, Neil may have to realize soon that in order to make the electric car universally usable, he may have to talk many of the gas stations to carrying an alternative such as the ‘electrical battery’. The best option for a green car to become viable would be the hybrid version at least for the near future. Maybe Neil will realize this in time and reconvert his electric car to a hybrid one.