Saturday, August 13, 2011

It’s Not Really Yellow, You Know

I am sorry if I gave anyone the impression that my Leaf is yellow. (You didn’t think my head was bigger than the driver’s window, did you?) It wouldn’t be an electrical banana if it wasn’t yellow, so I relied on the reality-altering abilities of Photoshop for the desired appearance. Here’s what my Leaf really looks like.


But why “Electrical Banana”? I think because Donovan said it very well in his 1966 song:

Electrical banana
Is going to be a sudden craze.
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase.

And given the overwhelming preponderance of gas-powered vehicles everywhere you look, together with the vast infrastructure necessary to support them, driving an EV is as extraordinary as an electrical banana.

By the way, if you want to see a video that is ostensibly about an EV called Electrical Banana (although it’s mostly a long segment of a lava lamp made from a Bacardi’s rum bottle) click here. The sound track is Donovan's Mellow Yellow (the Electrical Banana song). And I had nothing to do with the creation of this video. I just found it on YouTube when I Googled “Electrical Banana.” Really.

e- you next time!

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