Team Bio

Global-E is a partnership of entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists and automotive enthusiasts brought together through our shared passion for automobiles, innovation, and environmental responsibility. Motivated and inspired by the Global-E founder, our team’s charter is to design, develop and manufacture Efficient, Emergent and Engaging vehicles that will change the world's view of ultra efficient passenger vehicles. At Global-E, we envision a world in which everyone has access to highly efficient, inexpensive mobility that has a minimal impact on the global environment.

For this new electric plug-in and hybrid electric vehicle market to be successful in both the US market and globally, conventional design and manufacturing methodologies must be re-evaluated and optimized. With our extremely diverse pool of talent and creativity, the Global-E team is able to redefine outdated and inefficient design and manufacturing practices while doing what any successful automotive company must do: Create a safe and quality product that consumers want to buy. Team Global-E is competing with two vehicles; “G1” which is a four passenger hybrid electric vehicle and “Pulse” which is a fully electric sport compact hatch. Our team’s pledge to the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE is not only to participate in the competition, but to bring our vehicles to production no matter what the competition outcome may be.

Since the inception of Global-E, Educational Outreach has been a core principle of both our corporate and Progressive Automotive X-PRIZE team model. We recognize that collaboration with academia not only grants access to cutting edge facilities and staff, but also directly impacts the quality of student’s educational experience including her/his marketability post graduation. We currently engage in collaboration with three universities: University of New Orleans, Delgado Community College, and University of Florida. Each institution brings core strengths to the table and each student brings not only academic knowledge, but a unique perspective to the project. These unique perspectives also reflect Global-E’s commitment to diversity and inclusion; members of the team come from a wide variety of backgrounds and hold many key positions in both management and non-management roles. We firmly believe that the best way to create and grow a successful company starts by employing a diverse workforce who’s contributions, at all levels, are applied to corporate operations and strategies.

You, as the consumer, are the one who may be purchasing, insuring, and maintaining a vehicle in the near future. Wouldn’t you prefer to have a vehicle that gets over 100-mpg? Wouldn’t you like to know that your vehicle consumed only half the energy of a conventional vehicle to build and used only half of the materials and resources? Wouldn’t you like a vehicle in which you don’t have to change the oil but every 20,000 miles, no spark plugs and expensive electronics to go bad, no smell coming from the exhaust pipe, a vehicle you can drive from New Orleans to Detroit without fueling? Global-E is committed to making vehicles like this a reality NOW instead of in several years like many of the major auto manufacturers keep promising (and prolonging).

If you are compelled to join us on our amazing journey in bringing transportation in to the 21st Century then please consider sponsoring our efforts by contacting us at btouchard@global-e.us or by making a small donation through paypal at www.global-e.us. Also make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Youtube.

Sincerely,

The Men and Women of Global-E

For more information on Global-e, check out the team's coverage on ConsumerReports.org