https://www.azpm.org/p/crawler-stories/2016/1/19/80288-new-yorkers-electric-powered-road-trip-reaches-tucson/ New Yorker's Electric-Powered Road Trip Reaches Tucson January 19, 2016 Sara Hammond
[image / Sara Hammond, AZPM https://media.azpm.org/master/image/2016/1/19/spot/brian-kent-spot.jpg New Yorker Brian Kent with his Nissan Leaf, which he's driving to all of the lower 48 states to promote electric vehicles. ] Brian Kent is driving his small electric car to all of the lower 48 states. Why? Because he can. He is a one-man ambassador for the technology, which he says is capable of making a cross-country journey – as long as there are places to plug in the vehicle. Kent, a freelance writer from upstate New York, visited with the Tucson Electric Vehicle Association members Jan. 16 to share his experiences and compare notes about operating an electric vehicle. He’s calling his adventure the “negative carbon U.S. road trip.” “I want to prove the viability of electric vehicles. I want to show people they can go anywhere. An electric vehicle is the best way to take a road trip,” Kent said. Kent says more charging stations for electric cars will encourage people to switch to this form of transportation. “The infrastructure is limiting us from being able to all use electric vehicles because they’re already capable of doing the vast majority of what people want them to do,” he said. Kent said the 80-mile range of a typical electric vehicle is about twice what a normal driver travels in a day. By the time he reached Tucson, Kent had traveled more than 29,600 miles in his Nissan Leaf, and had been on the road 146 days with 12 states yet to visit. He said he hoped to complete the trip in 100 days. He said he has enjoyed meeting people and educating them about the benefits of going electric. Kent said he hopes what he learns on the road will help the industry build more charging stations. He’s planning to write a book about his journey and the people he’s met. [© Present Arizona Public Media] http://science.kjzz.org/content/253292/electric-car-driver-cross-country-trip-makes-tucson-stop Electric Car Driver On Cross-Country Trip Makes Tucson Stop January 19, 2016 Sara Hammond [audio http://kjzz.org/sites/default/files/electric%20car%20ASD%2001192016.mp3 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRDx56b8Arc First Annual Negative Carbon Roadtrip Joram Bierdeman Aug 17, 2015 The promotional video for Brian Kent's First Annual Negative Carbon US Roadtrip. Animation, Music, and Narration by Joram Bierdeman https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-first-annual-negative-carbon-u-s-road-trip--2#/story ] Brian Kent visited with the Tucson Electric Vehicle Association members to share his experiences and compare notes about operating an electric vehicle. Brian Kent is driving his small electric car to all of the lower 48 states — because he can. He recently made a stop in Tucson. Electric cars are viewed as great means to take short trips without pumping carbon into the atmosphere. Kent, a freelance writer from upstate New York, is demonstrating these vehicles are capable of cross-country journeys. Kent visited with the Tucson Electric Vehicle Association members last weekend to share his experiences and compare notes about operating an electric vehicle. Kent said more charging stations for electric cars will encourage people to switch to this form of transportation. "The infrastructure is limiting us from being able to all use electric vehicles because they’re already capable of doing the vast majority of what people want them to do," said Kent. Kent said he hopes what he’s learning on the road will help the industry build more charging stations. He has 12 states to visit before he returns home. He’s planning to write a book about his journey and the people he’s met. [© 2016 KJZZ/Rio Salado College/MCCCD] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-New-Yorker-s-Leaf-EV-Trip-Reaches-Tucson-AZ-tp4679993.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 Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
