I wouldn't usually describe Boise, ID as the center of electric vehicles, but things are looking up here. A little more than a year ago, the Nissan dealership had one Leaf that they had received and were showing. For the past few years, our work site had two home-built conversions, one Solectria Force and an electric motorcycle. We have 3 120V/20A outlets designated and posted for charging EVs.
Today, that same Nissan dealership now has several Leafs that are quickly selling out. We just got our third Leaf showing up at the chargers at work. We also have a couple of Volts around in the parking lot. In addition, I've seen 3 different Leafs while out driving in the city. Since we live in a state that doesn't set any quotas, we won't likely see any compliance cars, but Nissan seems to be trying to sell cars and being successful at it. We've moved to morning / afternoon sharing on the charging outlets and started discussions with site management on increasing charger opportunities. Also, discussing whether we can get any L2 charging for vehicles like the Leaf that could use it. Even here, EVs are slowly coming in and the people that are driving them are really enjoying them. Interestingly, the discussions about why people are getting them are starting to be as much about fuel savings as environmental. (Gas is $3.89/gal and rising here). With our local power being 54% renewable, there is a pretty good environmental message too. Mike _______________________________________________ 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)
