I will be attending the Boise event with my Tesla. There should be at least 5-6 Tesla, several conversions, and many production EVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles. It will be fun!
Mike On August 7, 2015 2:04:55 AM MDT, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://www.autoblog.com/2015/07/31/national-drive-electric-week-already-up-to-122-scheduled-events/ >National Drive Electric Week already up to 122 scheduled events >Jul 31st 2015 Chris Bruce > >[image / Facebook >http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/960x541+0+177/resize/800x450!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/66bfc7a361f48a4323117b5f96f5391/202398591/National-Drive-Electric-Week.jpg >(EVent) >] > >Last year's National Drive Electric Week was a massive success with a >huge >jump in attendance and 152 events across 39 states and abroad. A >gathering >in California even staged the Guinness record for largest ever EV >parade. Of >course, this year's celebration of electric motoring from September >12-20 >hopes to get even bigger. With over a month to go before 2015's >festivities, >93 places already have everything set, and 29 are still finalizing >things. >Of the 122 locations so far, there's one in Hong Kong and nine in >Canada. >For now, we'll let the whole "National" moniker stand. > >As the nation's largest market for electric vehicles, Californians have >the >most choices of what party to attend, but even in places with far fewer >battery-powered models, fans can find a place to go to find likeminded >drivers. With one EV for every 2,304 registered vehicles in the state, >Idaho >has an event in Boise. Despite the figures being just 1 in 4,121 cars, >even >Louisiana has two gatherings: in Shreveport and Baton Rouge. > >The annual event to promote EVs and build awareness about them started >in >2011 as National Plug In Day but switched to a weeklong celebration in >2014. >Nationally, Plug In America, the Sierra Club, and the Electric Auto >Association present it, but local fans in each city help organize the >gatherings. You can check out the list of all of the locations and >times set >up so far, here, and they are also looking for volunteers. > >National Drive Electric Week >The basis of National Drive Electric Week is that the enthusiastic >owners of >electric vehicles are EV's best advocates and the key to gaining >widespread >adoption. Some states created early incentives or benefited from >federal >programs that have helped drive EV ownership. In those states, we tend >to >have strong EV owner communities and participation in National Drive >Electric Week. > >In other states, it's both more of a challenge and a tremendous >opportunity >to kick start outreach and build EV momentum. This month, we'd like to >recognize some of the National Drive Electric Week events that are >taking >place in states that are just getting started with EV ownership. > >According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, as >of >2013, California led the nation with one plug-in electric vehicle for >every >181 registered vehicles, Hawaii was in second place with 1 in 237 and >Washington rounded out the top three with 1 in 295. > >In Kansas, only 1 in 1921 registered vehicles is electric, yet Al >Pugsley is >organizing two events in the Kansas City area Overland Park and Prairie >Village and Shawn Schmidt is getting an event started in Wichita. > >In South Carolina, with just 1 in 2228 vehicles having plugs, James >Haberberger is leading an event in Bluffton, Richard Williams an event >in >Charleston, and Phillip Washington in Columbia. > >Idaho has 1 EV for every 2304 vehicles and an event in Boise led by >Edwina >Allen. > >In Oklahoma (1 in 2368), John Gallagher put Oklahoma City on the event >map. > >Kentucky (1 in 2991) has two events going in Jeffersontown. James >Maddox is >leading one on September 13th and Jon Tyson has a three-day event going >at >the Gaslight Festival the following weekend. > >In Alabama (1 in 3069), Jeff Baker is organizing a Huntsville event in >the >Redstone Energy Demonstration Park. > >Louisiana, with just 1 EV for every 4121 vehicles, has the lowest EV >adoption rate of all the states that (so far) have a 2015 National >Drive >Electric Week event, and they have two events! Michael Epper is >organizing >an event in Shreveport and Lauren Lambert-Tompkins is getting an event >started in Baton Rouge. > >The organizers listed above can use the support of the existing >electric >vehicle drivers and supporters in their area. Please consider bringing >your >electric vehicle or your enthusiasm to these events. You can volunteer >on >the event page for any of the events. > >We currently have events organized or being planned in 31 states. The >states >that don't have events range from Connecticut with 1 electric vehicle >in 822 >vehicles to Mississippi with just 1 in 5563. Check out the event map. >If >your state doesn't yet have an event, there's still time to organize >one! >[© 2015 AOL] >... >https://driveelectricweek.org/events-list.php?year=2015 >National Drive Electric Week > > > > >For EVLN posts use: >http://evdl.org/evln/ > > >{brucedp.150m.com} > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVent-National-Drive-Electric-Week-a-free-easy-way-to-learn-about-EVs-tp4677084.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) _______________________________________________ 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)
