About Jim Motavalli
Jim Motavalli writes on environmental topics for The New York Times, NPR’s Car Talk, Mother Nature Network, Success Magazine and PluginCars.com, among others.
He is author or editor of seven books, including Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future and Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change, and Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery. His most recent book, High Voltage: The Fast Track to Plug in the Auto Industry, was published by Rodale in 2012.
He is a senior writer for E/The Environmental Magazine, contributes to Audubon, Mother Earth News and Environmental Defense Fund publications, and writes a weekly "Wheels" column. He writes reports and journalism for the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) and Knowledge@Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has contributed to Men's Journal, AMC Outdoors, Popular Mechanics, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Review, Salon, Grist, The Guardian, Tomorrow Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Sierra and many other newspapers, magazines, and websites.
He also hosts a radio program on WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and lectures widely.
Jim is a freelance journalist, speaker (at colleges, environmental conferences, membership gatherings and other settings), book author, radio personality and expert on all things environmental. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
He is author or editor of seven books, including Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future and Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change, and Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery. His most recent book, High Voltage: The Fast Track to Plug in the Auto Industry, was published by Rodale in 2012.
He is a senior writer for E/The Environmental Magazine, contributes to Audubon, Mother Earth News and Environmental Defense Fund publications, and writes a weekly "Wheels" column. He writes reports and journalism for the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) and Knowledge@Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has contributed to Men's Journal, AMC Outdoors, Popular Mechanics, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Review, Salon, Grist, The Guardian, Tomorrow Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Sierra and many other newspapers, magazines, and websites.
He also hosts a radio program on WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and lectures widely.
Jim is a freelance journalist, speaker (at colleges, environmental conferences, membership gatherings and other settings), book author, radio personality and expert on all things environmental. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
