Success Stories

Electric Car Paradise – Why Portland Oregon could be the EV promised land

January 20th, 2011

Look for the article featuring the Oregon electric vehicle industry in the February 2011 issue of Inc. Magazine.

Six months after Mark Frohnmayer and his co-founders sold their video game developing company, GarageGames, to IAC for $50 million in 2007, Frohnmayer launched a new business: an electric-car manufacturer called Arcimoto.

That may not sound like the most obvious career shift, but, given Frohnmayer’s location, it might be a smart one.  Based in Eugene, Oregon, Arcimoto is part of a growing concentration of 27 electric-car and component companies along the 110-mile-long corridor from Portland to Eugene.

The article also mentions four other Portland-area businesses: Shorepower Technologies, Synkromotive, AmFor Electronics, and MotoCzysz.  With over 40 electric car and component companies located throughout Oregon, that’s only touching the surface.  Learn more about other innovative Oregon companies…