As President of Intrago, a community mobility company, Dan looks at how transportation is evolving and what new possibilities for personal mobility are likely to emerge. He is an internationally recognized expert on innovative mobility solutions and sustainable transportation. Dan created the most popular electric car in the United States and now focuses on integrating (digital-age) mobility options into energy and land efficient transportation systems that are customized for communities and cities.
 
Intrago is a Smart Mobility Solutions company working with major planned communities to provide integrated mobility solutions that reduce the environmental and economic cost of transportation and improve the quality of the user's mobility experience. In addition, Dan's company has developed new On-Demand (rental) technology for Segways and other light EVs to enable a new level of local mobility and enhanced transit offerings. VPSI Inc, the top employee transportation company in the United States is one of the early backers of Intrago.
 
In 1995 Dan brought the first Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) to market; having designed the vehicle and forming the company to build and distribute it. Today, Dan's vehicle company is owned by DaimlerChrysler (Global Electric Motorcars brand) where more than 35,000 have been built (35 million one-way NEV trips have been recorded in California alone in the past 3 years). Dan began working on a systems approach to improving mobility in communities a decade ago and has worked with the University of California's Institute of Transportation Studies, California's Department of Transportation, Rocky Mountain Institute, Segway, Inc., DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company as well as with an assortment of land developers and government agencies in this area.
 
Dan was named one of the top 40 designers in the United States by ID Magazine, and has been published in Wired Magazine and the Wall Street Journal among others. In the April 2006, 20th Anniversary issue of Automobile Magazine, Sturges presented his ideas on the Future of the Automobile. He recently hosted the GOING Conference on alternative transportation in Boulder, Colorado.

"It's been fun for me to see our little NEV trolling about Russia at the G8 Summit.  Seems Mr. Putin of Russia is a fan of our B9 little buggies. It just shocks me to see this design have this kind of life and makes me excited about what we are really able to do with a meaningful budget!  (The picture attached shows our first 6 produced NEVs in Columbia, Missouri at the company we contracted to build them).

While the early models were really rough in build quality, we must have done something right with our design for them to live so long. (editor's note: 12 years and counting on this design and 32,000-plus produced - the most popular battery EV in history)."