% I found a couple of items in the newswire below that was more interesting than the headline> the creative way the public EVSE was implemented at a Santa Cruz CA store.
For those that have not been to Santa Cruz, there is an ample supply of artistic talent within the Santa Cruz county mountain folk. Like several of CA's mountainous counties, sometimes conformity gives way to artistry in a way that adds panache to living-in or visiting there. See the image below for an a ~1940's Sunland pump that was turned into a public EVSE. While others may say, this is nothing new/its has been done before, this gives me personally something to seek out to see the next time I am out-n-about in Santa Cruz. This old-pump is monastic of by-gone days, when full service stations abound for self-destructing hungry-overpowered-inefficient-ice, and the extreme petrol-profits greed had not kicked into excess like it is today (OT it costs a lot to fund terrorism /OT) The other point of interest for me in the newswire below was the mention that a local fresh bottled juice company (Coca-Cola's) Odwalla is using Smith Electric Vehicles to deliver in SF. % http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/technology/20141216/santa-cruz-to-end-perk-for-electric-vehicles Santa Cruz to end perk for electric vehicles By Jessica A. York 12/16/14 [image http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/NE/20141216/NEWS/141219722/AR/0/AR-141219722.jpg (Sunland gas pump EVSE) Dave Faulkner charges his electric vehicle outside of Zayante Market in Felton ... Dave Faulkner uses a personally installed electric car charger in Felton. (Thomas Mendoza -- Santa Cruz Sentinel) ] Electric vehicles by the numbers • 1.5 million: Gov. Brown’s goal for electric cars on the road statewide by 2025. • 100,000: Plug-in cars sold in California since in 2010 • 40: Percent of national electric car sales made in California • 51: Electric vehicle charging stations countywide • 8: City of Santa Cruz car charging stations being repaired Sources: California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative, plugshare.com, chargepoint.com. SANTA CRUZ>> Seeking balance in the city’s alternative energy transportation needs, Santa Cruz will take a step back from a long-time downtown public incentive, beginning Jan. 1. Electric vehicle owners have enjoyed free metered and garage parking and charging since the city first began installing charging stations in 2002. After the first of the year, however, electric vehicle users will be join the ranks of traditional vehicle users and be charged for parking at all for-pay locations. Charging your electric vehicle will remain free. The incentive program was designed to last for just one year, with an expected 50 to 60 cars using the pay-parking spaces annually. To date, about that many drivers use city parking structure spaces per week, said city Public Works Department spokeswoman Janice Bisgaard. “The program has been successful in helping to spur the use of zero emissions transportation. The city’s objective has been accomplished,” Bisgaard said. “Encouragement is no longer an issue. We are now reaching capacity at our charging stations.” Bisgaard said members of public-private partnership Monterey Bay Electric Vehicle Alliance expected these type of incentive programs to gradually phase out as electric vehicle use grew. For electric vehicle users such as Felton resident Dave Faulkner, who began leasing his electric car in January, the change in vehicles was an important step in a long-held plan to reduce his carbon footprint. However, free parking and free car charging stations in and around Santa Cruz, along with state and federal incentives, Faulkner said, helped push him to follow through with the idea. “If the incentives weren’t there, who would give, ‘Here’s an extra $10,000 out of my pocket.’ Who’s going to do this?” Faulkner said in an earlier interview. When Faulkner, a biologist, ran into repeated problems with the city’s free charging stations malfunctioning last year, he decided to purchase his own charger and install it in front of his Felton building, which houses the Zayante Market. The public station stands complete with an antique gas pump housing, which echoes the property’s role as a Chevron gas station in the 1940s. Since their installation last year, eight of the 13 Santa Cruz city-operated electric vehicle charging stations had functioned inconsistently, city Public Works Department spokeswoman Bisgaard said. Eight of those stations were given a system overhaul on Oct. 10, including installation of longer, 18-foot cables, she said. Growing trend Faulkner is one of 429 registered electric vehicle owners this year in Santa Cruz County, according to California Department of Motor Vehicles data. Since July 2010, 493 new Clean Vehicle Rebates from the California Air Resource Board have been issued for all-battery electric-powered vehicles in Santa Cruz County, according to date compiled by energycenter.org. “It’s definitely exploding. I’ve seen a lot more EVs,” Faulkner said. “Chargers are rarely open, compared to January.” In 2009, the Monterey Bay Electric Vehicle Alliance formed to advocate for electric vehicles in the region, including working to bring new vehicle charging stations to three local counties. In an effort to meet public demand for both full recharges and smaller “top offs” for the community, travelers and commuters, there are some 51 different electric vehicle charging stations at 29 sites countywide, according to information compiled for the Sentinel by Sharon Sarris. Sarris, the founder and co-chairwoman Monterey Bay Electric Vehicle Alliance, said the growing number of charging stations offers a sense of security to potential electric car buyers. “I think the units have worked very well and have helped spur the sales of EV because people see them around,” Sarris said. “I know people get frustrated when the charging stations are all being used, but it happens.” Fleet focus Alliance member Ecology Action has been promoting the benefits of electric vehicles for the past three years and is looking of late toward reaching out to business owners and other agencies that employ fleets of vehicles, said Piet Canin, Ecology Action’s vice president of transportation. Next week, city partner Ecology Action will begin airing public service announcements featuring local entities that have electric vehicle fleets, including interviews with Santa Cruz city transportation staff members. Emily Glanville, a program specialist with Ecology Action, said businesses such as Odwalla, with refrigerated trucks, and West End Tap and Kitchen are integrating electric vehicles into their vehicle fleets, a trend the nonprofit hopes to see spread throughout the region. “This particular one we did last year we did a TV PSA with Left Coast Digital we focused on individual private owners with electric vehicles. What our idea was is we want to expel that myth of electrical vehicles just being golf carts going down the road,” Glanville said. “It ended up just being the best educational tool we had last year.” In the latest round of public service announcement filming, Ecology Action decided to focus on businesses and other agencies. “I think a lot of people do not know that we have really great electric vehicles for just, like, your private owner, but we have also there’s also lots of different types of electric vehicles now that can meet your business needs, as well,” Glanville said. “The technology is changing a lot with electric vehicles, battery power is so much better, there’s utility trucks and larger cars now available for purchase, that it’s so new that a lot of people just don’t know about it yet.” Santa Cruz’s move to end free alternative-energy parking comes even as the city supplements its own electric vehicle fleet, adding two new electric-powered Nissan Leafs to existing four electric cars, through an up to $54,000 grant from the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District. “Our Leafs are the most popular pool cars,” said Cheryl Schmitt, city transportation coordinator. “If they’re all out, it’s ‘Oh, OK, I’ll take a Prius.’” [© santacruzsentinel.com] ... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zayante-Creek-Market-Deli/115655825130382 Zayante Creek Market & Deli https://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&gws_rd=ssl&um=1&ie=UTF-8&fb=1&gl=us&cid=12481633633078636672&q=Zayante+Market+in+Felton&sa=X&ei=wWaSVNGgDMmvogSkmYC4DQ&ved=0CCcQtQMwAw&output=classic&dg=brw (map) 9210 East Zayante Road, Felton, CA 95018 (831) 335-2542 http://www.coca-colacompany.com/innovation/a-frigid-fleet-coca-cola-unveils-first-electric-refrigerated-trucks A Frigid Fleet: Coca-Cola Unveils First Electric Refrigerated Trucks By: Meagan Priselac Oct 25, 2013 [image http://assets.coca-colacompany.com/f8/e3/9b9a615a49448ccfeefa16b7635f/odwalla-truck-604.jpg ] ... http://www1.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/m/coca-cola.html Coca-Cola unveils first electric refrigerated trucks Oct. 25, 2013 ... In California, 16 refrigerated plug-in electric vehicles will hit the streets by year's end. The first-of-its-kind fleet will transport chilled Odwalla beverages throughout the San Francisco Bay Area ... [© eere.energy.gov] ... http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/keep-on-trucking-a-tour-of-smith-electric Keep on trucking: A tour of Smith Electric Oct 29, 2012 [image http://media.mnn.com/sites/default/files/user-38/smith%20kc%20coke%20truck%20small.JPG ] ... For urban deliveries, battery power makes sense. It fits city emission-reduction plans, and distances are small enough that the 80-mile range isn’t a challenge. Frito-Lay now has 176 of these trucks (with more than a million fleet miles), Duane Reade (pharmacies in New York) has 14, Pepsi and Coca-Cola both have fleets, and both Red Bull and Odwalla are new customers ... 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