National Plug-In Day is October 16 in the U.S. Please join us!

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Fabio was there to ride his electric motorcycle that he bought after doing the Plug in America PSAs. There was also a "loaner Tesla" in glacier blue there for him to drive at the front.


LA turnout:

90 Leafs
19 Volts
17 RAVs
7 Teslas
4 Porsches
3 Mini Es
2 Coda
2 Wheego
8 motorcycles (Brammo, Zero, Vectrix)
1 Fisker
2 E box
1 Smith truck
1 Ranger
1 pickup conversion
1 MR2 Spyder
1 plug in Prius
2 Smart ED
1 S10
1 Phoenix
1 iMiEV
Converted Hummer on its way to Antartica
Balquon Bus
Coca Cola’s E Star (Navistar)
Big hauling truck

Who can tell me which is the nosiest one of all?

 

[bonnie]

Fisker!!

 

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Fisker!!

Give that lady a prize!

Wait till they post videos....

 

[TEG]

Who can tell me which is the nosiest one of all?

Nosiest or Noisiest?

I guess Fisker wins on both counts.

 

[Mycroft]

OK, so it's noisy and it has no storage for all its size, but it looks like the frickin Batmobile!

 

[bonnie]

I cheated. I heard it on a video. First thought was 'what IS that sound??'... then saw the Fisker. Question answered.

 

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Some pics from the NYC event (on Incompatible Facebook): Incompatible Browser | Facebook

Trusting EnerTec EV bike manufacturer:

 

[tomsax]

The Seattle NPID event went very well. Chad did an excellent job of finding a site, recruiting owners, and organizing everything. Well done, Chad!

In addition to a large collection of EVs on static display at Mercer Island's scenic Luther Burbank Park on the shore of Lake Washington, we had at least two Roadster owners and several LEAF owners giving demo rides.

Here's a Photosynth Panorama of the event early on, before we overflowed EVs onto the inner circle of grass:

National Plug In Day - Seattle

Or a flat rendering of the same 360-degree view:

I did an incomplete survey and found the following:

42 Nissan LEAFs
12 Tesla Roadsters
7 Conversion EVs
2 Toyota RAV4-EVs
2 Chevy S-10s
2 Ford Rangers
2 Chevy Volts
2 Sparrows
1 Vectrix Scooter
1 Wheego LiFe
1 Mitsubishi I
3 Conversion Prius HPEVs
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78+ Vehicles totaling more than 610,000 all-electric miles!

I'm sure I missed some EVs in the parking lot, and wasn't able to get electric mile stats on 25 vehicles (mostly LEAFs, with one Roadster, one long-time daily commuter Sparrow, and one conversion, so easily an additional 100,000 electric miles).

 

[TEG]

OK, so it's noisy and it has no storage for all its size, but it looks like the frickin Batmobile!

Actually a LEAF won that title this time around:

 

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Video B roll here:
https://public.me.com/jeffuren

 

[Mycroft]

BATT-Mobile. Too funny! :smile:

 

[rabar10]

Some pics from the NYC event (on Incompatible Facebook): Incompatible Browser | Facebook

Trusting EnerTec EV bike manufacturer:
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Nice :smile: I've been ogling Mark's EnerTrac motorcycle hub-motor setups recently, there may be a potential DIY conversion in my future. Good to see he made it out there.

 

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Quick review: Mega fun. It was configured for a steady output, it feels like the weight of a 600, pulled like a steady 600, slight cogging at <5mph but with torque like this you won't be doing that speed for long.

 

[TEG]

Looks like DZCPA had his wheels chromed!
Electric vehicles parade through OC : The Orange County Register

 

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Miss Electric's coverage: http://www.misselectric.com/?p=2559

She is the first to reallycomment on the quiet.

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As you know when you give a ride in your EV to some percentage of passengers are amazed and comment as you take off "It's so quiet!". After two years in my EV and plenty of group drives, even I was struck when we all started out in unison. Tall buildings on either side of us, three rows wide, and 50 cars deep and we were a moving mass without a sound. It was really odd, weird, errie and of course good and cool. I was yammering on about how amazing it was it with my wife who just did not get it. About 20 minutes in then it hit her.​

Motorcycles buzzing around us and EVs as far as the eye could see in either direction all while having normal conversations with spectators on the side of the road. The chains on the bikes and Fisker's klagoning was all that could be heard.

It all made for a weirdly un-noisyspectacular parade but it's wonderful to think that's how it could be on LA freeways.

Have not heard about the DB testing they did three days before to compare with the library-drive festivities.