Ready to retire in early 1990s, he gave his last presentations on behalf of the US Advanced Battery Consortium, of which he was then the Assistance Program Manager for Electric Vehicles, at a conference in Austria. It was here he saw his first electric bicycle and was hooked. Like Bob Stemple, Lee Iacocca and Malcolm Currie, Jamerson decided to focus his retirement years on the electric vehicle industry, electric bicycles and batteries specifically, starting in 1995 with a report he wrote for Currie, now one of the most successful electric bike companies in America.
That report has grown now into its Seventh Edition and 150-plus pages of data and information on the burgeoning LEV industry and relevant technologies. After providing me with a complementary copy, I wanted to talk to Jamerson about his interest in light electric vehicles and his views on a number of issues including the role he sees them playing in the future.
Electric Bikes Worldwide Reports is a truly worldwide collaborative effort with contributions from LEV experts around the world including Ed Benjamin (Asia), Susan Bruesch and Hannes Neupert (Europe), Guo Ziqiang (China), Phil Leavitt, Donald MacArthur and Steve Hansen (US), and others. Jamerson uses his global contacts and rich technical background to edit the report. [See special discount offer below for EV World subscribers].
