Each day-long stop in cities along the tour will include presentations by GE and community leaders, workshops to help stakeholders with EV planning, deployment, and integration strategies, and test drives.

ENGADGET: GE kicks off EV Experience Tour, promises WattStations for all

Also on Friday, General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) unit WMC Mortgage said it would stop making loans to certain types of borrowers and will cut 460 workers, or 20% of its staff.

FORBES: New Century's Trials Are An Opportunity

Meanwhile Clean Energy has teamed up with truck stop operator Pilot-Flying J to build a border-to-border network (to include these GE Micro LNG plants) by the end of 2013.

FORBES: Acceleration of the Natural Gas Highway

He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.

FORBES: The sun also rises

He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services -- not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.

FORBES: The sun also rises