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Author Topic: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16  (Read 2471 times)

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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2018, 08:00:17 AM »

I registered for the Issaquah event.  I apparently will be one of two Zeros in attendance. I will have my new 2018 Zero DSR .

I’ve been to that one before I moved away from Seattle. You may not be alone. Registrations often lag.
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2018, 11:41:23 AM »

I registered for the Issaquah event.  I apparently will be one of two Zeros in attendance. I will have my new 2018 Zero DSR .

I also registered for the Issaquah event. I will be there with my BMW C Evolution Scooter. I guess I'm one of the 'other plug in vehicles'.

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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2018, 11:20:37 PM »

I am curious who is the third Zero motorcycle that registered for Reno, NV.

I am one, Shadow is one other, whom is the third?

-Don- Reno, NV
 
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2018, 01:02:38 AM »

So far there's only ONE Zero -- me -- and no other electric motorcycles signed up in San Diego.

Come on people, let's represent!
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2018, 07:26:35 PM »

Yesterday I displayed my Zero at the NDEW event in the city of San Mateo, CA. The location was directly across the street from the city's police department. The police were represented by a very large cop and a much smaller community service (non-sworn) officer who arrived with a couple of electric parking enforcement utility scooters. Neither of them knew anything about the Zero as its regular rider only works on weekdays. About an hour into the event, a Zero FX with a Hollywood Electric license plate frame showed up ridden by a young woman. I think she said her name was Susan. She is shown in photo 11. And that was about it for Zero.

Energica was well represented with their own popup and a nice display and they brought along their U.S. import manager and another top executive to answer questions. My younger brother showed up and spent quite a bit of time talking to them.  He is the president of the local 1970's "muscle car" club.  ::) And that was about it for motorcycles, although an electric bicycle company was also in attendance.

Naturally, there were the usual local car dealerships that put in a showing, including VW, Tesla, Chevy and Nissan. Photos attached. They seemed to get by far the largest interest by visitors.

Attached are three photos.
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #20 on: September 09, 2018, 07:28:31 PM »

And here are three more photos that I took at the San Mateo event yesterday.
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #21 on: September 09, 2018, 08:27:23 PM »

We have 87 registered Zero's at 64 events so far and the week is upon us.

https://driveelectricweek.org/event-vehicle.php?year=2018&pevid=20

My Madison WI event even has a Brammo!

Last year had 93 Zero at 66 events.
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2018, 11:37:34 AM »

I am curious who is the third Zero motorcycle that registered for Reno, NV.

I am one, Shadow is one other, whom is the third?

-Don- Reno, NV
The third guy was Ryan, a guy who lives in NW Reno who we (Shadow and myself) didn't know existed. And he didn't know about this forum. I just sent him a link to this forum, so maybe he will show up here.

I found the event to be very interesting and us three Zero riders stayed there until the event was over at 1400 hrs.

I took a ride in a $140,000.00 Tesla. It's faster than our Zero SR's!   0-60 and about 2.2 seconds. The thing is just ridiculous, for many other reasons also. Such as how the car will come to you without a driver from a cell phone app. Is 4WD as it has a motor for each set of wheels.

-Don-  Reno, NV
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2018, 11:48:24 AM »

I am curious who is the third Zero motorcycle that registered for Reno, NV.

I am one, Shadow is one other, whom is the third?
That other bloke showed off his stock 2016 SR and it was the cleanest Zero I've seen with 1400 miles on it except maybe Anton's (but then not totally stock for comparison at all and probably more miles). Even the seat bolts and axle nuts still had their witness marks in place from the factory!

Why do you people wash your motorcycles and coddle them to keep the dirt away? I don't understand!  ;D

Joking aside I got recognized by my friend and Squaw Valley Ski Resort co-worker who'd brought his Tesla Model 3. There were many TM3's present at this Reno event actually, though on his I got to crawl around in the trunk and pretend to be car camping. When Tesla makes the towbar and air suspension available on the TM3 ordering process I'm !@#$ well much more convinced to buy one as my winter escape vehicle for the ranch. Comparable to all the vehicles there I looked at the later-model Toyota Rav4EV that had the *best* clearances and approach angles of any vehicle present; its owner bought off CarMax and said that is no longer possible to find one that way they are quite difficult to obtain but it was not much of an issue when he got his used for about $20k USD some years ago. For the Tesla Model 3 I would say approach angles could be comparable if it had the same clearances although the nose is longer it is not as much of an obstacle versus the Model X.  I mean, what I'm talking about on this tangent is towing some EV motorbikes and when several feet of mud and snow make it impossible entirely to ride any 2 wheeled vehicle to not have to keep a hillbilly pickup truck around just for that. I'd got into buying my Zero and learning to ride motorcycle for it simply because I'm waiting (and still waiting!) for some kind of 4x4 vehicle that can handle some off-road shenanigans.

Other 2-wheeled vehicles present:  Sondors folding pedal-assist bike.  Several stand-up pedestrian scooters.  Nice guy on a traditional kind of motorbike with a long history of checking out the NDEW event for Reno and shared with me some insight into what it's been like in past years. There are fewer DIY builders showing up to the events as the mainstream becomes more EV-heavy.

I let some people who seemed to have moto experience take my '16 DSR for a spin around the block. It was hellah easier than trying to explain what's so interesting about it. For people who hesitated or were interested but at my judgement clearly not moto people I put them on the pillion seat to go for a ride with me. A lot of failure to explain with words what the experience was like other than ....

AND THEN THE GUY WITH THE TESLA P100D GOES LIKE THIS:   Y'all want a ride in my TESLA P100D? There's an open seat!

So I volunteered Don. Ha ha ha.... into the only ride there significantly quicker than a Zero Motorcycle 'R. Wish I'd taken pictures and specifically one of the ridiculous grin he had coming back from the 'sla.
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2018, 12:59:43 AM »

Hey, a second Zero registered for the San Diego event! Just curious, is the other person on this forum? Mine's a 2014 SR, what's yours?
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #25 on: September 12, 2018, 03:52:14 AM »

Here is a link to the official photos of the San Mateo event. If you look hard enough you can see my bike in the first photo. They don't call it the National Drive Electric Week for nothing.  ;)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LmPrhmwhBf8O4YHhi0n7o5YJmvTmfZV-
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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #26 on: September 13, 2018, 06:09:34 PM »

There were two of us at the September 9th event in Portsmouth NH (Good seeing you there Chandler).  Sorry for the lousy picture!  It was fun.

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Re: 2018 National Drive Electric Week September 8-16
« Reply #27 on: September 14, 2018, 01:28:44 AM »

I had my SR and my Focus Electric at the Las Vegas Event
Lots of people took photos, haven't found any yet. The Local
Tesla Owners Group showed up with a couple million dollars worth
of Teslas and stole the show. We had new and old Leafs, iMev, Spark
First and Second Generation Volts, some Bolts. Pretty good turn out overall.
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