Best Buy looks at selling electric cars
Best Buy is actively engaging partners in talks of electric car sales, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
“We are very serious about the business,” Leo Raudys, senior director of environmental affairs for Best Buy Inc., told the the Wall Street Journal. “Electric cars are basically computers on wheels. We expect to play a big part in it.”
Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc. wouldn’t say whether the company would enter into some partnership with Best Buy to sell its i-MiEV electric cars, which Best Buy is currently testing for use by its Geek Squad, said Mitsubishi spokesman Moe Durand told the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. The company plans on releasing the i-MiEV in America in 2011.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that Raudys said Best Buy began selling electric bikes and scooters in Oregon last year, and expects to expand to 40 markets in 2010. The company also sells electric motorcycles made by Brammo of Ashland.
Best Buy has 11 stores in Oregon.
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