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Electric Car Enthusiast Busted in Sting

 
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Santa Monica resident Paul Pearson is an avid electric car enthusiast. Since it is nearly impossible to buy an electric car today, Mr. Pearson has done what any other talented enthusiast might do, build his own.

The go-cart like vehicle he built is called the "Electric Sprint Car" which he built in a rented garage and drove around town daily. Pearson was able to obtain a serial number for the car and have it licensed by the DMV as a special vehicle. The car uses six 12 volt batteries and has a top speed of about 50 mph.

Where it gets a little dicey is whether Pearson was also building these cars for sale. The police set up a sting operation and he was busted for manufacturing vehicles without a license and failure to obtain a business permit. You see Pearson had a website advertising his work and took money from an undercover officer in exchange for agreeing to convert a gas car to an electric one.

Pearson doesn't really feel he was doing anything wrong. After all he was only trying to help get this country off of oil, whats so bad about that?

Source (Santa Monica Mirror)





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Comments (4)

  1. By  Aaron T Posted: 4/11/2009 5:55pm PDT

    "Uhhh"

    I fail to see what he was doing wrong. If he's converting an existing vehicle to electric, how can that require a "license" of any kind? Of course, he lives in the Kommunist Republik of Kalifornia, so no doubt they have a whole pile of licensing requirements for underwater nose picking and the like. He should move to Wyoming. There's a guy here about 30 miles from me that builds 30mm cannons for sale. Everything's legal in Wyoming. :)
     
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  2. By  paul pearson Posted: 4/11/2009 10:53pm PDT

    "owner"

    No I did not take any money from the under cover DMV nor have I ever sold a street licenced vehicle to anyone,i'm a proto builder,for the full and acurate story see smdp.com ,search electric cars,this is the real story,thanks Paul Pearson
     
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  3. By  Todd Horst Posted: 4/13/2009 10:20am PDT

    "WOW"

    http://www.smdp.com/Articles-c-2009-04-07-52127.113116_Electric_car_enthusiast_faces_several_charges.html
    Having read all 3 articles (source, this article, and the one from smdp.com) I cant beleive how bad you screwed this article up. even your source never says anything about him accepting money. From what it sounds they made arrangment but nothing ever went through. Entrapment comes to mind. Anyway do a little more research next time, though this is still a pretty interesting story.
     
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