Friday, June 26, 2009

Response from Tom Gage, AC Propulsion

Tom sent me an email re: my article in wired which I am posting with his permission.

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Darryl:

Good article. I have to say though that I cringe just a bit when I see my name in front of Alan Cocconi's. In the context of your article, someone might think that order implies I have primary authorship for the tzero, and that would be vastly inaccurate. It's not that Alan is prickly or that I am falsely modest, but the tzero truly embodies Alan's singular vision which foreshadowed Tesla's beginnings by almost ten years. Alan conceived the tzero in 1994 and he was the driving force behind its design and development. That is an interesting story in itself, I was involved, but the tzero is Alan's creation.

Tom Gage
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