FEATURE • CRUISING WITH CURRIER
Geoff Currier cruises with Hasoni Pratts in Oak Bluffs. After years of evaluating electric vehicles, Pratts and her husband Michael settled on the Tesla Model X Plaid.
FEATURING HASONI PRATTS AND HER 2021 TESLA MODEL X PLAID
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Cruising with Currier Story by Geoff Currier Photos by Jeremy Driesen
or our inaugural issue of Blue Dot Living, we’re kicking off a series of stories featuring Islanders and their electric vehicles to give readers a taste of what kind of EVs are out there, how people like them, and if they might be right for you. The series is called “Cruising with Currier,” and in each case I’ll take a ride with an EV owner, and we’ll talk cars and whatever else pops into our heads. As for my credentials, I have none other than I’m curious. I’m not a “car guy”; I drive a 2004 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck with a broken taillight. But hopefully I’ll ask the kind of questions that will give you a better-informed idea of what’s going on in the ever-changing world of electric vehicles. And for my first cruise, I’ll be driving along with Hasoni Pratts. Hasoni is a political and policy strategist; she’s a founding member and treasurer of Higher Heights for America, which helps Black women get elected to public office. She was also the national director of engagement for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. She and her husband and their two children live in Brooklyn and Oak Bluffs, but when the pandemic started in
March 2020, they moved to Oak Bluffs full-time, or at least until the COVID lifts. The car we’ll be driving in is Hasoni’s 2021 Tesla Model X Plaid, which she just got in December. Much has been said about the Model X, but if I could put it in experiential terms, it was like riding in a space capsule. The bucket seats seem to embrace you, the oversize windshield stretches back forever, and you’re surrounded by screens. The engineering, the performance, and the innovation are all off the charts with the Model X, but what also comes through, loud and clear, is that Elon Musk loves to have fun — and has a very quirky sense of humor. I agreed to meet Hasoni at the Bend in the Road Beach parking lot in Edgartown, and from there we’d go for a ride. As I rounded the corner on Beach Road, I saw a sleek white SUV with its gullwing (Tesla calls them Falcon Wing) doors open and reaching up to the sky, and I knew I’d come to the right place. Laurie David, who is an advisor to Bluedot Living, suggested I talk to her friend Hasoni, saying she loves talking about her new
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