Despite a lack of demand from the American public for electric cars, the federal government gave a California company more than $100million in taxpayer money to establish a network of car-charging stations that is plagued by multiple problems, a government audit revealed.
The company is San Francisco-based ECOtality, which recently named Brandon Hurlbut - one-time chief of staff to former Energy Secretary Steven Chu - to its board of directors.
'I’m a political beast,' ECOtality's then-president, Jonathan Read, said on a 2007 shareholder conference call. 'Playing the political card is something that when the time is right we’re going to play very hard.'
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