Besides the points that Bruce already mentioned, I would like to highlight the positive benefits of a personal invitation (even if by email).
I coordinated a show in Boise, ID in April. It is quite a bit different situation, but there are some parallels. Our show is held at the Hewlett-Packard site in Boise. It is intended to showcase alternative vehicles of all types (bio-diesel, electric, CNG, bicycles, etc.) Because of that, it is a pretty focused show, but we want to showcase a mix of conversion and new vehicles; as well as bicycle commuters. Personalized invitations to owners of conversions and commercial vehicles was key to our success. I went through the evalbum and found everyone in the area. Some of them had moved out of the area without updating their information. As you might guess, several drivers of EVs were employees of HP. They were easy to contact and convince to show their vehicles. However, we also go several other owners of vehicles to come display on a work day. We contacted everyone we knew and put the word out through the valley that we were looking for cars. Again, each one got a personal invitation to show. We ended up with between 1/2 and 2/3 of the conversions in the area at our show. I figured that was pretty good. (It was around 7 conversions. Boise isn't really a hotspot for EVs like some other areas. We do have 3 Nissan Leafs on site now, though. Two are new since the show.) I also wonder if calling it a "Classic Car Show" discourages some people with electric cars. I don't know that I would consider my 1993 Honda del Sol a "classic" even if converted to electric. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bruce EVangel Parmenter > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 8:14 PM > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Classis car show Danville Blackhawk 9/1/13 > > I am glad your show went well. > But I would suggest you do not judge other conversion drivers too harshly as > there are several reasons why they did not bring their personal EV to the > show: > > -as Cor had mentioned, there is the steep climb on I-680 that some local > conversions are not suited for, and or those conversions are not retrofitted > to tap into the new wealth of public L2 EVSE. > > -September is a busy plugin month: local EAA chapters either have an EVent > of their own to celebrate Nation Plugin Day, or their Chapter member plan on > attending other Chapter's EVent to give support (i.e.: > the eaasv.org rally @DeAnza College). > > -that EVent was on a holiday weekend, and family and friends may have > made other plans. Sometimes, there are other factors pulling at a driver's > ability to attend these EVents, and they have to pick their battles (they past > on your smaller EVent, so that the spouse would be OK with attending the > coming larger Plugin Day EVent, etc.). > > -or it could be, your EV is just so-good, they did not want to be out-classed :-) > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > - > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013, at 06:02 PM, Cruisin wrote: > > It was a good show that no EV conversion owners came to. Even those > > that live in the area. Ed Thorpe was there and I with the only EV > > conversion. Over > > 300 > > Classic cars on display in front of the Blackhawk museum in Danville. > > Very > > sad that there is a lack of interest from those that made a lot of > > noise about conversions the last 10 years and have fallen silent. I > > guess their lead acid is dead. > - > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... > > _______________________________________________ > 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
