Instead, the automaker will have to stand out even further in a marketplace now well accustomed to electric vehicles such as the Leaf and Chevrolet Volt, even competing with the might of Ford and the Focus electric, set to be released later this year.
Tomorrow night, with an acoustic set at 10 followed by two electric sets beginning at 11 30.
Tonight, with an acoustic set at 9 and two electric sets beginning at 11 30; admission is $10 for the acoustic set; $20 for the electric sets; or $25 for all three (Pareles).
But this wasn't because Pete didn't like electric music - he'd enthusiastically applauded Muddy Waters when he performed an electric set earlier that day.
Tomorrow night, with an acoustic set at 10 followed by two electric sets beginning at 11 30; tickets are $12 in advance, $15 tomorrow (Pareles).
Some of his audience began heckling the American piano star Brad Mehldau ("Play some piano! Play a solo!") during his untypically funky electric set with drummer Mark Guiliana.
It was the 1965 festival at which Bob Dylan famously strapped on a Fender Stratocaster and shocked his fanbase with a three-song electric set.
The Zac Brown Band and the Black Keys fared much better by mostly sticking to what they knew and ripping through electric sets featuring their best-known hits.
But the thing that angered Seeger was not the fact that Dylan had gone electric – he'd applauded Muddy Waters electric set earlier that day – he was angry because he couldn't hear the lyrics.
He plays an acoustic set and an electric set each night, letting fewer people listen more closely, weighing the physical power of sound over his own convenience and, perhaps, business sense.
As a result, when the Newport Jazz Festival put on a special afternoon of blues in 1960, it included a folkloric segment, a jazz segment, and a fiery electric set by Waters and his band.
