T. Boone Pickens' V-Vehicle Isn't Dead Yet

Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has a knack for picking underdog projects. The plan to build the largest wind farm in the U.S.fell through and was downsized to a few wind farms in Minnesota. And V-Vehicle, Pickens and Kleiner Perkins' secretive auto startup, had its request for $321.1 million in federal loans rejected by the Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing
(ATVM) loan program just last month. But V-Vehicle, at least, is still trucking along--the startup...