On September 13, 2009
Iceland Fast-Tracks Electric Car Charging
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND—Gisli Gislason is on a mission: He wants to buy 1,200 electric cars. Right now. And that’s easier said than done. Encountered just before the Driving Sustainability ’09 conference in Iceland’s capital, the ginger-haired Gislason is the CEO of Northern Lights Energy, whose 2012 New Beginnings is aiming to wire this country of 300,000 people for fast charging by that soon-to-arrive date. Iceland, with its abundant supply of inexpensive geothermal energy and small, concentrated population, is ideally suited to be the first country in Europe hard wired for EVs. In Gislason, it might have found the right person to carry the mission beyond the talking stages. I spoke to him against a backdrop of his white Tesla Roadster, the…
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