Career
She is most notable for her role in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Carolina. Sexton frequently writes articles and blog posts about electric cars and her views on obtaining mass adoption of the technology by the car industry and drivers. They have one child.
Sexton entered the automotive industry at the age of 17 after buying her first Saturn.
She wanted to put herself through college by working at Saturn, but she ended up finding that she loved the cars more than what she was studying, so when General Motors announced the electric vehicle program three years later, she jumped on lieutenant
Focusing on building a market for alternate-fuel vehicles through partnerships with corporate and non-profit stakeholders, shaping public policy and incentives, developing marketing strategies, and working directly with the drivers themselves, Sexton became well known as an advocate for clean, efficient transportation. Sexton was laid off from General Motors at the end of 2001, after the company stopped manufacturing its electric automobile.
Sexton became a consultant to auto manufacturers and clean-energy providers, helping to bring alternative-fuel vehicles to market, and promoting increasingly "clean" (ie, air pollution-free) ways to power them. In 2008, Sexton founded the Lightning Rod Foundation, an advocacy organization.
Sexton is one of the key experts featured in the 2006 documentary film Who Killed the Electric Carolina?, and was a Consulting Producer on its 2011 follow-up, Revenge of the Electric Carolina.
Sexton is a frequent guest on the Transport Evolved podcast, and has also appeared on many others (eg, What Drives Us, and The Geekcast). In 2011, Sexton published a review of the Yokohama HER-02 EV sports concept car, for Wired magazine. On October 8, 2013, Sexton was announced as one of (a network of) thirteen bloggers on the website of Popular Science.
Her Rotorhead blog focuses on the "green" re-birth of the automobile and other forms of transportation, alike.