Khosla keeps betting on combustion engines with Transonic investment

Khosla keeps betting on combustion engines with Transonic investment

Well-known Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla has never been shy expressing his opinion. Khosla once dissed plug-in hybrid vehicles — supported by environmentalists because of their partial reliance on batteries versus oil — as “nice toys …not material to climate change.”

Coming from Khosla, who has been among the most prolific investors in green technologies, the comments raised some eyebrows. However, the tune has since changed, because Kholsa has backed a select kind of hybrid vehicle… Continue Reading