Nice, Tom! I hope you get a good response and that it all goes well for everyone who takes part.
Meanwhile, here in the UK the G'ment has just announced that it'll take care of 75% of the cost of installing EVSE in both private and public domains. For how long is another question but I gather theres a £10m pot for this. I have to say they do seem quite committed to ushering in the EV Era but it doesn't appear to be terribly well planned - on a national basis, at least. For example, as far as running the public EVSEs is concerned there are several regions in the UK each running its own EVSE access scheme (all using some form of RFID card to open the chargers) and each choosing from one of about 6 different equipment makers. Until very recently each scheme was incompatible with the others so that if you lived in one region and worked in an other (like virtually all the people that commute into London every day - 2 million?+) you had to be a member of two schemes - quite possibly three if you also lived near an outer regional boundary. Anyway, as I say, things are moving along apace here, EVly speaking. With the launch of the Renault Zoe (pronounced 'Zoey', BTW!) in July it'll be interesting to see how many people actually start buying EVs as the price barrier will effectively disappear. Added to that is the launch of the Smart (Mercedes) EVD or whatever they are going to finally call it. Similar in pricing to the Zoe but somewhat cheaper battery rental at £50 instead of the Zoe's £70. I'm off to see my Renault dealer to discuss the Zoe later today and will report my findings - should anyone be in the remotest bit interested. On a related note, I read that New York is going to install some 10k EVSEs soon. I added a comment to the article suggesting that rather than install them willy-nilly they offer existing EV owners the option of having one installed where it would most suit them (within reason). That way they would encourage EV ownership generally by providing EV owners a useful facility (as well as a pretty much guaranteed parking space - for a while at least) as well as having EVs noticeably charging on a street 'near you'. It would also avoid the otherwise likely scenario of having loads of empty EV-only parking spaces annoying ICE drivers. What think the list to this idea? If no-one can think of a reason why it wouldn't work I might suggest it to my local EVSE organizations as a general policy when deciding where to put EVSEs in the future. Regards, Martin Winlow Herts, UK http://www.evalbum.com/2092 www.winlow.co.uk On 19 Feb 2013, at 23:27, Tom Keenan wrote: In case any list members live in the San Francisco Bay Area, the East Bay chapter of the EAA will be hosting a build day for the Open EVSE Project. Sam Lipton presented the Open EVSE Project last month at the EBEAA monthly meeting. Several people said they were interested in building one, and I am making a list of persons so we can have all the parts, etc. there during the build day on May 18th in Alameda from 10 AM to Noon. For reference, here is the link to the Open EVSE Project: http://code.google.com/p/open-evse/wiki/OpenEVSE_Plus_spec Tom Keenan President East Bay Electric Auto Association _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
