According to him he asked the high school why parking was so expensive at $240 and that they stated, “They wanted people to be more green…and they wanted people to carpool”.  Well I guess it worked!  A $0.02 cent a mile cost to run a vehicle is incredible.

When searching about Henry Ford’s inspiration I came across this excerpt:

Late Bloomer
While Henry Ford was not the first to attempt the production of low-cost, reliable automobiles, he was the first to make cars affordable to average Americans. Born into a family of Michigan farmers in 1863, Ford quickly developed a dislike for farm labor. As a mechanically-inclined young man, he built and drove racing cars. It was not until he was forty years of age that he incorporated the Ford Motor Company in Detroit.

It seems as if Henry Ford’s inspiration was more of an intellectual challenge or a mechanically oriented mind.  This guy seems to enjoy finding loopholes and being green.  I’d like to test one of these cars and if it is as inexpensive as they say sign me up to the waiting list!

thanks to PBS for the great info