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Title: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: nogasman on September 21, 2012, 04:17:12 AM
I'm curious if any U.S. folks are planning on attending the plug-in day events around the country this Sunday? I plan on stopping by the one South of LAX. Any +1's? http://events.pluginday.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/index.sjs?distributed_event_KEY=613 (http://events.pluginday.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/index.sjs?distributed_event_KEY=613)
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: protomech on September 21, 2012, 06:32:05 AM
I'm going to stop by the one in Huntsville AL. Expecting a couple of Leafs. My Zero is on its way back now but it'll be a couple days too late to show : (
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: ColoPaul on September 21, 2012, 07:55:34 AM
I'll be at the Denver one, at the Forney Transportation Museum.  Going to try to bring the Zero - but my girlfriend wants to come so maybe not as I don't have passenger foot pegs.
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: ed5000 on September 21, 2012, 09:45:04 AM
I'll be at the one in Alameda, California.  It's at the South Shore shopping center near the beach and I'm bringing my 2010. DS ;D
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Richard230 on September 21, 2012, 08:54:39 PM
I am thinking of checking out the plug-ins at the De Anza Community College in the South Bay Sunday morning.  Since I will be riding with a friend I will be on my black BMW R1200R, instead of my Zero.
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: mehve on September 22, 2012, 12:45:48 PM
I'm attending the one at Snoqualmie Falls in WA. It's more convenient than Seattle's. :)

+ m
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Harlan on September 23, 2012, 10:33:27 AM
We'll be there.  We have organized a group ride from our shop in West Hollywood down to El Segundo.  We're meeting at 10am if anybody would like to join us.

Hollywood Electrics
901 N. Fairfax Ave.
West Hollywood, CA 90046
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Richard230 on September 24, 2012, 04:09:26 AM
Here are some photos from the Plug-In Day exhibition at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, CA  Neither Zero nor Brammo showed up, even though Zero HQ is located not far away.   :(

The only motorcycles on display was the Lightning and the Electricepter. 
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Richard230 on September 24, 2012, 04:19:19 AM
Here is the Electrcepter.
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Richard230 on September 24, 2012, 04:20:29 AM
And then we have this.
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Richard230 on September 24, 2012, 04:21:32 AM
And finally this.   :o
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: ed5000 on September 24, 2012, 09:55:32 AM
We had a great day here in Alameda, Ca.  Zero showed up with four bikes making my bringing the 2010 DS kind of pointless but that's okay.  Getting some exposure out there is the whole idea.  They weren't giving out test drives but I got to test drive a 2011 XU anyway.  It's a great little bike on sale for only $3500 and it has a brushless motor and chain drive, etc.

There was also a lot of cars there.  I saw 3 leafs, a volt, a brand new toyota Rav4ev and a 2002 Rav4ev, a factory made plugin Prius and a after market plug in Prius (by Plugin Supply),  plus a whole line of Yike Bikes and some nicely converted evs, and a Kewet.  It was a great turn out.
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Harlan on September 24, 2012, 10:20:36 AM
We had a pretty good turnout for our group ride this morning! Here's a pic of us all with our bikes.
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: ColoPaul on September 25, 2012, 05:45:00 AM
Neither Zero nor Brammo showed up, even though Zero HQ is located not far away.   :(

sgmdudley and I showed up to the Denver plug-in day; and the local dealer was also not present; although the dealer has been at other EV events here.
We spent about 3 hours showing off our Zero's and talking them up to people.  There was a lot of interest.

I met a guy there who told me he had a "won" a Brammo Empulse and was waiting for them to build it so he could take delivery.   ???  Must be nice, although I'm skeptical.
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: trikester on September 25, 2012, 11:15:17 AM
Quote
We had a pretty good turnout for our group ride this morning! Here's a pic of us all with our bikes.

Hmm.............Guess I should have been there after all, Harlan.

BTW - Please say congrats to Electric Cowboy (and to yourself as sponsor) for me.

Trikester
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Electric Terry on September 25, 2012, 08:13:35 PM
Myself and pro AMA racer #64 Jeremiah Johnson attending the Orlando Plug In Day.

National Plug-in Day on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/50038932)

and then later that day we had some fun on the ZF9 and his electic race bike...

Terry's Electric Zero ZF9 and Jeremiah Johnson's Electric LeLi race bike flyby on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/50035843)

:)

Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Richard230 on September 25, 2012, 08:39:06 PM
I am detecting an error, Will Robinson.   ;)
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Electric Terry on September 26, 2012, 12:37:14 AM
Not sure what is up there.  the links for the videos work if you click on them, but embedding the preview doesn't.  Just click the links, unless someone can tell me how to fix them.
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: Richard230 on September 26, 2012, 03:37:33 AM
Not sure what is up there.  the links for the videos work if you click on them, but embedding the preview doesn't.  Just click the links, unless someone can tell me how to fix them.

The links worked.   :)
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: benswing on September 28, 2012, 12:04:14 AM
I joined up with a group of BMW Active E's, some Nissan Leafs and a couple of Chevy Volts in Parsippany, NJ at Rutgers where they have 80MW of solar installed.  That's right, MegaWatts! 

I'm the only motorcycle rider of the group, and would love to see others come out, too.  Jealous of the pic of 10+ riders all in one place!  That looks great!
Title: Re: National Plug-In Day Meetup?
Post by: RickSteeb on September 29, 2012, 08:41:44 PM
Here are some photos from the Plug-In Day exhibition at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, CA  Neither Zero nor Brammo showed up, even though Zero HQ is located not far away.   :(

The only motorcycles on display was the Lightning and the Electricepter. 

There were some interesting vehicles there!  Some pix here:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/96401931@N00/sets/72157631649788758/with/8034887430/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/96401931@N00/sets/72157631649788758/with/8034887430/)

 :o