Jason Harper

I’m on live every Friday at 4:44 ET on Bloomberg TV… here’s last weeks, my picks of the year.

Talk about electricity.

My Bloomberg column on the all-electric Tesla Roadster ran today, and I’ll be doing a live spot on Bloomberg TV at 4:45 Friday afternoon December 4th, as well (plug plug!). I’ve been waiting some time to get behind the wheel of this sucker, considering it’s not only the first electric sports car out, it’s actually the first all-electric car to go on sale, period, in the last few years. (I’m not so sure the GM EV-1 counts anyhow, and the other golf-cart-like cars such as the Neighborhood certainly don’t.)

It’s zero to 60 mph is as good as Ferrari, fer Crissakes, and its exterior DNA is straight from one of my favorite rides, the Lotus Elise. So what’s not to like? (more…)

Um, so, a conference. I don’t do conferences, because usually there are doctors or scientists or vacuum-cleaner salesmen attending them, but this week I am — Bloomberg’s Cars and Fuel Briefing in Los Angeles, on December 1, 2009. It’s in conjunction with the LA Auto Show. I’ll be moderating a discussion with the CEO of Edmunds, Jeremy Anwyl. We’ll be talking about cars of the future and what it will take for consumers to go to electric and hybrid cars (read: the cost differential). I’ve got a Jason H. Harper bio and everything. So official. So… geeky. I almost want to punch myself.

Oh, and in the garage (the LA garage, I suppose): The Audi A5 2.0 with manual transmission.

Taking the Mercedes-Benz S400 out to Delaware this weekend. A “mild” hybrid, it should run about $90,000 and get around 28 mpg… we’ll see!