Here is newswire piece mentioning Fresno State University is using what UCD has done with ebikes as an example to implement:
- http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2014/09/18/grants-to-be-used-for-barstow-bike-lanes/ Grants to be used for Barstow bike lanes By Nadia Pearl | September 18, 2014 ... “We have more than 20,000 students,” Dong said. “If a significant amount of students, proportionate to the student body, rides a bicycle, that reduces a lot of traffic, saves a lot of energy and reduces pollution.” In using the example of UC Davis’s campus, Dong said Fresno State can also demonstrate to the region why bicycling should be considered an option. “(UC Davis) took lead and made the whole city very bicycle-friendly, and now a lot of people ride there,” he said. Gaffery also hopes to generate an increase in bike ridership. He said with 10 percent of the university’s population living within one mile of campus, riding a bicycle should be better than the struggles of driving a car ... Yet Dong, a regular commuter to the campus via bike, believes there needs to be a “change to people’s perceptions” about riding, as many people are intimidated by the roads around campus. “I do believe the university should have more efforts to have students and faculty members ride bicycles,” he said ... - Besides having a good AG (Agricultural) focus, UCD has been plugin active with UC Davis' Professor Andrew Andy Frank's great plug-in-hybrid work (way-ahead forward thinking, and before pih production) http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/frank/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_A._Frank http://phev.ucdavis.edu/ way-way back in the late 1990's UCD tapped into what SMUD (Sacramento CA's utility) was doing with EVs which was way before anyone else in CA. http://www.evchargernews.com/regions/95616_6.htm UC Davis Parking Lot P46 - see images at the bottom 1st- gold Honda EV-plus conductive charging), silver GM EV1 (inductive) 2nd- red Nissan Hypermini, red EV1 3rd- close up of that red Hypermini EV (forerunner to the Leaf EV) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Hypermini Nissan Hypermini EV http://www.autoconcept-reviews.com/cars_reviews/nissan/nissan-hypermini-urban-concept-2000/cars_reviews-nissan-hypermini-urban-concept-2000.html Nissan Hypermini Urban EV 1999 - 2000 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhistory.nissan.co.jp%2FHYPERMINI%2FCATALOG%2Fcatalog.html (translated Japanese page) http://www.autoconcept-reviews.com/cars_reviews/nissan/nissan-hypermini-urban-concept-2000/wallpapers/nissan-hypermini-urban-concept-2000-3.jpg Hypermini EV cut-away I never really cared for the Hypermini. Being a two seater was not a bad thing as the 2-seat Th!nk.no EV was greatly loved by those that drove them as part of the Station Car Project. It was the Hypermini's buying into GM's proprietary inductive charging, its weird looks, and most were painted a gawd-awful metallic-green, that made the EV look like a toad. The fact that they were near impossible for the public to get (like most production EVs at the time) did not help. *Note, be careful not to take what is on the evchargernews site (above) as applicable to today. That site has old data, that was ported over from the EV1-Club site. Many of the public EVSE listings are from the late 1990's http://www.eanet.com/ev1-club/chargers/95817_5.htm SMUD CSC Sacramento CA - see Honda EV-plus and GM EV1 Photo circa 1998 by Bill Korthof, son of Doug Korthof https://www.google.com/search?q=Doug+Korthof long-time EV-activist So, SMUD was way ahead of everyone else in CA as far as putting in EVSE (though many were just nema 10-30 30A dryer outlets http://www.zoro.com/i/G0367482/ - this was before conductive AVCON and inductive SPI EVSE) and having a solar array power one of their SMUD owned chargepoints. Sadly, much of that was ripped out when SMUD had a change in management (not unlike the U.S. Fed. Gov change that un-did all the EV progress back at that time). They just threw it all away so as to not be lyable. SMUD had to rebuild (rather than upgrade) its public EVSE when Production EVs were actually being sold to the public (circa 2010). Light EVs (lEV) are an EV industry onto themselves. IMO much work needs to be done to coordinate lEV design for public charging, ebike parking, and the marketing or selling of how to install ebike racks to cities. Some the ranks are pretty weird looking, and some do not take in account that young and old people do or can not lift a bike to stand vertically http://www.patentauction.com/images_membres/715Vlaska10bica700.jpg See bicyle parking images https://www.google.com/search?q=bicycle+parking&biw=1024&bih=646&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=7YocVJW8D9W1yATgm4CQDg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ What I have seen are better use of ebike racks that allow more room between them http://www.fs.illinois.edu/services/more-services/tdm/biking/bike-parking so as to not cram them altogether http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3fG3CM779ts/TiLV4whLyNI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/rB5kc9ZHPJ0/s1600/bike+park+5.jpg I would like to see all ebike have an on-board charger. And one that charges off L1 quickly drawing no more than 700W. Then the ebike can easily carry a simple AC cord to plug into level-1. If vandals rip off the cord, it would be of a type that can be easily replaced at any hardware store. [sidebar - I found an interesting newswire about a dumb ebike thief http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2612075/Bike-thieves-steal-2-500-electric-bike-accidentally-call-owner-help-charge-it.html /sidebar] Since the racks I like (image shown above) are for two ebikes at a one, one 5-15 gfci duplex outlet http://www.zoro.com/g/Industrial%20Duplex%20Receptacles/00154212/ could be mounted on each one. Two 700W on-board ebike chargers would run off one 5-15 duplex receplable powered by one 120VAC 15A breaker. Here some ebike links to explore: http://electricbikereport.com/electric-bikes/ Welcome to the World of Electric Bikes http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/electric-motorcycles-other-two-wheelers-micro-evs-quadricycles-mobility-for-disabled-2013-2023-275636841.html e-Motorcycles/2Wheelers, Micro-EV Quadricycles, Disabled Mobility LEVs Sept. 18, 2014 http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/eneloop.jpg Solar charged ebikes in China http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/chinas-electric-bike-charging-cultures.html China's Electric Bike Charging Cultures By Zach Hyman - October 23, 2013 For EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=204476 http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-EVLN-The-Most-EV-Friendly-U-S-Universities-tp4671633p4671667.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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)
