DFW: National Drive Electric Week -- Saturday, September 20, 2014 10a-3p

All,

I wanted to let you know about this National Drive Electric Week event hosted by the North Texas Electric Auto Association this Saturday from 10am to 3pm. It would be nice to have some Tesla representation there.

Hello all. National Drive Electric Week is underway. As discussed during the last NTEAA meeting we've decided to sponsor rides. We'll need volunteers to give rides on Saturday. I'll be there with my Leaf as well as Ron. Please respond when you'll be available and what you can bring for rides. This has the potential to be a great exposure for the NTEAA and Makerspace. We'll be making up fliers to give out and I"ll also bring the EV board to show workings of a typical EV. I also have one of the banners but if you have one, please bring it. We may also want an outdoor shelter to set up. Looks like we've also been invited to a "rally" at Classic Chevrolet Grapevine. However, the "rally" appears to be during our ride times. I'll send out more detail about the rally later.

Hope to see you all at the meeting.

Dallas Fort Worth Clean Cities - National Drive Electric Week

Upcoming NTEAA Meetings and Events | North Texas Electric Auto Association

Paul Schaffer

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More info from the North Central Texas Council of Governments

Hello Everyone!

We’re very excited about this week and the potential to educate new
folks about EVs. For current owners or those considering an EV, don’t
forget to come out to the North Texas Electric Auto Association
(NTEAA) meeting on Saturday, September 20. NTEAA has been great and
will open up their meeting to the public that starts around 10 am and
should last until about noon. Afterwords, everyone can mingle, chat,
etc. NTEAA has the space reserved until 3 pm. I also wanted to let
everyone know, we’re trying to organize a mini-rally over to Classic
Chevy in Grapevine. Buzz Smith over at Classic Chevy has been nice
enough to reserve space at his dealer in the service drive. The
service drive closes at 1 pm and current EV owners (of all types of
EVs) can drive to Classic Chevy anytime after 1 pm to park, show-off,
and answer any questions customers might have about EVs. We can
discuss this more at the meeting on Saturday but I wanted to let
everyone know. My goal would be to have as many EVs driving together
as possible and mount a Go Pro to a vehicle to capture it on video.
Google Maps says the distance between Makerspace in Carrollton and
Classic Chevy in Grapevine is about 15 miles. Classic Chevy also has
recharging.


Hope to see everyone on Saturday!


Thanks,
Kenny Bergstrom

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We have the same problem reported by other Drive Electric Week organizers. Few interested Tesla owners:

Registered Attendees
There are currently 101 attendees registered.
Expected Plug-In Vehicles
Registered attendees report 441,114 electric miles driven.

National Drive Electric Week Event - Dallas-Fort Worth

Latest update:

Good Morning Everyone!

I just wanted to send one last email to all those planning to
participate in the NDEW activities over the next few days. If you do
not own an electric vehicle, please stop by a participating dealer
near you and experience the vehicles. The day each dealer is
participating as well as the EV Specialist point of contact is listed
on our website,
National Drive Electric Week - Need Cookies.

For those of you who already own EVs, we would love to see you out at
the NTEAA meeting on Saturday morning. Those details are also on the
website. We welcome those who don't own EVs to attend that meeting as
well. Current owners can provide feedback on what the vehicles are
like to drive everyday.

One last item, for current EV owners (of all types of vehicles), we're
trying to coordinate a mini-rally from Makerspace in Carrollton to
Classic Chevy in Grapevine after the NTEAA meeting/gathering on
Saturday. We would possibly leave Carrollton around 2 pm (we'll
confirm the exact time on Saturday morning though) to head over to
Grapevine. It's only about a 15 minute drive. We need a headcount on
who can participate though. Buzz Smith from Classic Chevy needs to
know by Friday morning so they can prep a space at his dealer for cars
to hang out. If interest is too small, we'll cancel these plans.
Please let me know by 5 pm today (Thursday) if you would like to
participate in this mini-rally. Also, please copy Buzz Smith at
[email protected] on that response email so he has an
idea of interest.

Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Kenny Bergstrom

Not too late to join us! . Jerry33 dragging a Leaf.

eight here right now. Off to Classic Chevrolet shortly.

It was a nice gathering! Probably twelve Teslas of various kinds showed up over the course of the event. Every color was represented aside from multi-coat red (yes, we had sig red), new gray, black and blue. So, shame on you owners.

We also had a nice selection of Leafs, Volts, and some homemade EVs.

NCTCOG had some nice car-care gifts and a fair number of people came by to have their first rides in EVs.

A few of us made the rally over to Classic Chevrolet in Grapevine -- one Roadster, three Models S, four Volts and three Leafs, if I recall correctly. I can tell you this was the one and only time that I've driven LBJ at 60 MPH! Classic put us up in their Corvette maintenance bay (out of sight of their new car buyers hehe) and we continued the fun for another hour there.

Thanks to Dallas Fort Worth Clean Cities - Home for hosting and organizing the event!

jerry33 said:

After you left, they moved us out to the front.

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Good. Three Volts, two Leafs, a Roadster & an S at that point? I needed to get my patient passenger to In-n-Out, or I was going to have a crisis.

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NCTCOG held the Electric Vehicles North Texas (EVNT) Stakeholder Meeting and National Drive Electric Week Recap last week. The full details and presentations are here: http://www.nctcog.org/trans/air/programs/evnt/2014/111214/Agenda.pdf

I thought you'd enjoy the following slides:

Here's the number of EVs and PHEVs in the NCTCOG area by ZIP Code. Darker Greens have more cars registered. You'll see Park Cities, McKinney, Frisco, Southlake and Arlington lead with > 20 registered vehicles.



EV registrations have roughly doubled in Texas over the past year. I think there are problems with the underlying data (you can't count on the sales for each car being correct, but it's correct in total).