It was raining all the way up to the time of the EVent. I arrived at 9am,
and the sky started to clear. From that point on it was a good day. I
leveraged off several other activities happening that day there,
hawking-EVs, hooking the foot traffic.
Willie came and was sitting out of the crowd as he had other business going
on, but was getting an eyeful of what Brucedp does at these EVents (get the
public to look, sit-in, and ask questions about EVs from the owners. I'm
sort of an unpaid sales guy, directing the EV-interested to the plugins).
At this age and medical condition, I am careful to bring the low-salt food,
water, and my medications with me. But from the EVent's start @9am until it
ended at 1pm, I was running on adrenaline (no arthritic aches& pains, just
plenty of energy to talk EVs). Of course, after 1pm when the EVent was over,
I dropped down to normal, and started to feel the energy drain and exercise
burn (that kind of pain is worth it if I can help people to see beyond the
Koch Bros $B's spent on dis-information of plugins).
The public passing by was a good mix of all kinds of heritages, old and
young, families with children, young couples, or single people. A few
big-city affluent ambivalent types (that won't give you the time of day),
but most of the public were warm friendly (country/rural style) Texans :-)
On display at the EVent had a few local driver's plugins: 3 Tesla's
(counting Willie's parked over in the giving-rides area), a Leaf, a Focus,
and a few pih: local utility's Volt, an i3 with the rex option. There was
enough of a plugin mix to entice the public's interest.
One single young man had no idea there was a used-EV market (thinking he had
to buy new). I hooked him up to talk to the Leaf owner who did his research
to know what he wanted, and bought a used 2013 Leaf at an affordable price.
Of course, the Tesla EVs got the lion's share of attention (that's all the
media talks about), but I also helped balance out the public's attention to
also check all the plugins that were there.
Interestingly, at the end, there was a young man that was interested in
doing a conversion (who better to talk to than an EV old timer who knows
both the old and the new). I know so much about EVs, I didn't want to
data-dump on him. So, I gave him some links to explore: plugshare.com (to
know the L2 EVSE in the SA area), evalbum.com (so he could see vehicles that
had already been converted, and zoom up quickly as to which EV components
being used gave what type of conversion performance), and of course the evdl
URL.
Off the cuff, we were talking about a light pickup truck or station wagon
conversion, but at the end he was also talking about a huge 4x4 truck
conversion. If I remember right, the evdl has a couple of members that have
converted those. So, we might see him join the evdl and pose some conversion
EV questions.
Spent and tired, it was a rough drive back to my SA apt, and just craw into
bed. My body writhing in pain, I fell asleep :-zzz
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