2008

GET ON THE BUS Arguably the most Millennial of the new EV firms, Local Motors is combining crowdsourced design and 3-D printing into a nontraditional process called direct digital manufacturing, done in four mini factories. Co-founded in 2008 by CEO Jay Rogers, an ex–Marine officer and McKinsey consultant, it prints EVs such as Olli, a driverless shuttle that runs on IBM’s Watson platform.