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T. Boone Pickens' V-Vehicle is Now Next Autoworks

T. Boone Pickens' grand green energy plans have been shaken up once again--this time with a new name (Next Autoworks) and a new CEO (Kathleen Ligocki) for V-Vehicle, Pickens' Google and Kleiner Perkins-backed vehicle startup. READ»

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T. Boone Pickens' V-Vehicle Isn't Dead Yet

Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has a knack for picking underdog projects. The plan to build the largest wind farm in the U.S. fell through and was downsized to a few wind farms in Minnesota. And V-Vehicle, Pickens and Kleiner Perkins' ...READ»

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T. Boone Pickens-Backed Auto Startup Gets Rejected by the DOE

(Possible pieces of the secretive V-Vehicle, taken from a promo video)Poor T. Boone Pickens. The oil mogul had such dreams of green grandeur--the world's biggest wind farm!--but his biggest ideas are proving too tough to work out. ...READ»

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V-Vehicle: An Auto Start-Up From T. Boone Pickens and Kleiner Perkins

What do you get when you create a company backed by green venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins and former Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens? V-Vehicle Co., a mysterious new auto company that just emerged from stealth mode after four ...READ»