Chelsea Sexton is an electric car advocate and adviser, based in the United States. She is best known for her role in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? and is in New Zealand to attend screenings, including at Otago Museum last weekend.
What is your least favourite thing about humanity?
We are, unfortunately, an incredibly effective circular firing squad, tearing down ideas and each other instead of building up. We leave people believing that they can't make an individual difference, when the truth is, that's the only thing that has ever moved us collectively forward.
What is one strong childhood memory?
I grew up incredibly shy and surrounded by more adults than kids. So my best memories areof being tucked in a corner, watching and listening to smart, passionate people exchanging ideas and conspiring to make them happen; these days, I do plenty of it myself!
What is your message?
Electric vehicles are an incredible opportunity: environmentally, economically, societally and geopolitically. But they are also simply a better experience for drivers and families. And the best way to understand that is to experience one.
If you were going to an island and could only take three things, what would they be and why?
Adventurous companionship, a loaded Kindle, and lots of Chapstick.
You are a new addition to the crayon box. What colour are you, and why?
I think most would peg me as a ripe strawberry red: warm and mostly sweet ... but a little feisty too.
