Grand Vision, Big Questions for Oahu Electric Car Plant
06/30/2010
CT&T
A grand plan is emerging for Hawaii's first electric car plant.
The price tag: $50 million.
The location: 30 acres in Kapolei, with the final West Oahu site still to be determined.
The facility: A three-acre manufacturing plant, plus a showroom, test track, warehouse, design studio and a resort complex with cottages.
This according to California architect Stan Field, who is designing the facility.
“This will definitely be a landmark building and really celebrate the idea of clean and renewable energy being used to drive these electric vehicles,” said Field, who is principal of Field Architecture in Palo Alto. “The whole project is based on the real importance of sustainability and also being part of a Native Hawaiian environment and landscape. I like to design in locations where the people love the place because architecture has to express the spirit of a place, and that’s so apparent in Hawaii. The design is of such a nature that it will be such a wonderful venue for events, concerts, seminars and special occasions.”
