Hello Shawn, I the meeting today I mentioned a movement in Finland to establish a cooperative effort to build several hundred EV's using a bulk buy approach and "open source" model for conversion, to Harvey Bennett. He and I were thinking that this idea may be of interest to FLEAA members, and may be a good initiative to propose at the Battery Beach Burnout. This is a summary ot the Finnish effort:
http://www.sahkoautot.fi/eng:ev-press1 Harvey and I envision building/converting EV's with a cooperative many-hands-on Workshop, using the selected components, such as mentioned in the Finnish example. For example, following the bulk-buy of motors, batteries, etc. 6-10 people would congregate at Coastl Tire and collectively disassemble the IC auto and assemble the EV in one day (or so). This would be done for multiple copies of the EV on successive weekends (or so) up to several hundred... The FLEAA meetings, and Battery Beach Burnout would be good venues to see if the idea is of interest to enough people to proceed with the coop organization. Any interest? On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Shawn Waggoner - FLEAA <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > We have all the details ready for the next Battery Beach Burnout! The > planning team has been working very hard on getting the dates and venue > set. > > > > > The event will be on February 21&22, 2009 at FAU Jupiter Campus in Jupiter, > FL where we held the 2007 BBB and conference. > > > > We have a full event information packet available for download from the > website here: > http://floridaeaa.org/uploads/PDdownloads/BBB2009_Info_Packet.pdf > > > > The main event website, with all the details and schedule, can be found > here: http://www.batterybeach.com <http://www.batterybeach.com/> > > > > We are going to need volunteers and sponsors! Also, please note that this > year, we are opening up the events to Hybrids and Plug-In Hybrids as well > as > EVs. We should have a huge turnout this year. > > > > If anyone has any questions, please let me know. Thanks! > > > > Shawn Waggoner > > FLEAA > > > > PS - please note, we are still waiting on the 2009 BBB logo, so the logo up > there is a temporary one modified from last year. > > _______________________________________________ > Florida EAA mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.floridaeaa.org > -- Louis V. Ruffino,P.E. 234 Palm Trail Delray Beach FL 33483-5527 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 561-276-6926 Cell 561-350-0787 _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
