http://www.record-courier.com/news/20180716/wilens-electric-car-powered-by-wind Wilens’ electric car powered by wind Jul 16, 2018 Kelly Maile
[image http://www.record-courier.com/storyimage/OH/20180716/NEWS/307169981/AR/0/AR-307169981.jpg?Q=75&maxW=960&maxH=960 ] Bill Wilen of Kent drives around in an electric car that’s powered by the wind. “I’ve had this 2015 Nissan Leaf for a year,” Wilen said. “It’s one of the best decisions my wife and I have made. We wanted to do more. We wanted to face the future and be realistic about what’s coming with global warming.” Wilen and his wife vacation in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. While on vacation, they started reading Canadian author Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” and visited The Center for Global Justice, a multi-cultural research center where ordinary people collaborate to create a more socially and economically just world. Wilen, also a member of the Kent Environmental Council, said the trip and book gave him an increased interest in sustainability. “It shows how the petroleum and coal industries influence with money and politics and lobbying and how we need to change that because science is saying we’re going to lose unless we take initiative and go with solar panels and wind,” Wilen said. “We just have a president that’s not in that category. “In Mexico, people from Canada and all over come this major global justice center and talk about issues. We came home and wanted to do something rather than just read and talk.” Wilen charges his Leaf using a standard wall outlet in his garage. He said it takes about 12 hours to get a full charge, but using a 240V charging station can charge it in as little as four hours. He and his wife have a 2014 Camry for long trips because the Leaf car gets about 105 miles with a full charge. “Driving it is wonderful,” Wilen said of his Leaf. “The acceleration is amazing. It’s light. It makes no noise. You don’t even realize it’s on.” Initially, Wilen was using electricity from Ohio Edison to power the car, but he wanted to switch to alternative sources. He learned from a sustainability professor at Kent State University that American Electric Power, one of the many electricity providers to Ohio Edison, uses 100 percent wind energy. “We’re charing the car with electricity that is provided by wind generation,” Wilen said. Drivers can use a 240V charing station to get a fast charge. There are stations at Walmart in Ravenna and the parking garage in downtown Kent. Wilen said there’s an app to use to find nearby charging stations. Wilen is trying to convince the Homeowners Association for Lakes at Franklin Mills, where he lives in Kent, to let him put solar panels on his roof. His request was refused because the panels would change the outward appearance of the condominiums, but research finds that solar panels increases property value, he said. Wilen also sits on the sustainability ad-hoc committee in Kent. “In Kent, we’re trying to help adopt climate policies and the Paris accords,” WIlen said. The Paris Agreement within the United Nations on Climate change is dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, starting in the year 2020. “We’re trying to make Kent greener,” Wilen said. “We’re going to be measuring all the CO2 emissions and all the sectors.” Wilen’s electric car was part of the 2017 Green Energy Tour for Zero Emission Vehicles. “People parked there cars in an outdoor lot with all types of hybrids,” he said. “This was the only full electric car. “I would hope that people park behind me and say, ‘Zero emission. I might be able to do that.’” [© record-courier.com] + https://reneweconomy.com.au/berlin-buyers-exhaust-ev-cargo-bike-funding-in-just-one-day-96857/ Berlin buyers exhaust EV cargo bike funding in just one day 10 July 2018 10 hours ago Drivers may not be getting on the bandwagon to access Germany's €600 million EV fund to buy electric cars, but for electric-powered cargo bikes, things look ... https://reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Picture1-6.jpg For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
