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Community based action and Outreach and Education combined
Organizing around WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR ?
Westwood - Grand opening June 24th Green Day Fair
Stickers and flyers – available at Hastings Plastics in SM
Santa Monica – Nu Art Wilshire June 28th
- opening day splash
Hollywood – Arc Light June 28th opening day splash
Encino – June 30th opening day splash
Orange County – June 30th opening day splash
Santa Barbara – July 14th opening day splash
Getting your Sustainable Ride
EV’s on Display this Saturday
Extreme MPG – How does 400mpg sound!
Power requirements for electric scooters
Other Actions going on – Network in action.
MoveOn.org is pushing “Oil Free” initiative.
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Westwood - Grand opening June 24th Green Day Fair
This event is going to be amazing. Lots of our Club members will
be there and will be helping to get the word out about
sustainability. We should get lots of new names for our mailing
list as a result. Come on down - the more the merrier.
The event will also feature the display of lots of EV’s. This will
possibly be the largest collection of EV’s ever in California. The
Club will show up with the light weight electric vehicles and has
arranged for one of our newest members to bring really cool
looking NEV that is designed to look like a Roadster.
Those interested in getting an EV can check out the article below
to prepare for this event.
Here is the info again in case you missed the last announcement.
Grand opening June 24, 2006 at 12:45pm
Location: Landmark Regent Theater:
1045 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, (Westwood)
The Green Day Fair should be set up by noon and will run at least
through the afternoon. It will be in the parking lot next to the
theater. The cars should all be in place by 10:00 if that is your
interest.
There is lots more to be done after the grand opening and in
preparation for it. The openings in various areas near by should
also be a lot of fun and are a chance for us to do what we can to get
the word out. The next article will help you check out what is
happening in the different areas
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Stickers and flyers
– available at Hastings Plastics in SM and other ways
Plug in America has some cool flyers and stickers available to help
get the movie into people minds. This is real gorilla marketing
stuff that could just work.
The idea is to get the stickers to show up in high traffic areas so
people start to focus on the movie and the idea of electric cars. I
have already put them in strategic places in my neighborhood and
it would be great if you could do the same.
The flyers are a good way to let your friends and neighbors know
about the movies. There are fancy glossy ones available and you
can print out simple ones from the file on line at
www.sustainabletransportclub.com. I am thinking I will get one of
the simple ones to everyone in my condo complex as well as at
work. I like the idea of using the glossy ones for the local coffee
houses and in the restaurants.
Of course this all assumes you have already forwarded the
information to you entire email list………(see the last newsletter)
You can pick up a hand full of flyers and stickers at Hastings
Plastics, 1704 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica CA 90405 at the
corner of Colorado and 17th.. You can also email a request for
some to pscottvfx@earthlink.net or call Paul at 399-5997. He is in
the heart of this effort right now so please respect his time during
the crunch this next week or so and he would love to get you the
stickers and flyers.
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Santa Monica – Nu Art Wilshire June 28th
- opening day splash
Several of you have said you will make this opening and Plug in
America is also focusing on this one. We can all join in and make
the opening a splash that will get some attention for the movie.
There will be some kind of EV presence at this one – the RAV4’s
will be there and so will a scooter or two. Plug in America will
have the lead on this one so we can jump in and provide support.
Let me know how you want to help. We can hand out flyers as
people enter and exit as well as getting sign-ups for the club on the
way out. Email movie@rsydney.com These are possible to do and
still see the movie.
All these openings are the good ones to come to with a large group
of friends. If not the actual opening then for sure the first weekend.
By kicking things off in your area you help to build the buzzzzzzz.
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Hollywood – Arc Light June 28th opening day splash
Plug in America has two of the actors in the movie organizing
things for this opening in Hollywood. That means an EV presence
and a chance to help out.
Email us to get involved – pscottvfx@earthlink.net
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Encino – June 30th opening day splash
This Friday opening is a chance to get the Sustainable Transport
Club going in the Valley. It is two days after the Santa Monica and
Hollywood openings.
Anyone with an interest in seeing the Valley get organized around
Sustainable Transport and/or connected to our work please let me
know and we can get on this one. We can talk about this at the
previous openings to see what we want to do.
Email us to get involved - movie@rsydney.com
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Orange County – June 30th opening day splash
Plug In America is going after openings in Orange County. They will be organizing for this and we can help. Anyone who is inclined to spend Friday down there can jump in with the really fun folks they have in that area. They will have EV’s on site and other activities planned.
The first opening down there will be:
EDW SO COAST VILLAGE 3 COSTA MESA CA 6/30/2006
There are others scheduled for July 14th.
Email us to get involved – pscottvfx@earthlink.net
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Santa Barbara – July 14th opening day splash
Santa Barbara is ripe for a chapter of the Sustainable Transport
Club. We have a strong member there with the people at the Santa
Barbara Electric Bicycle Company. They are interested in working
things up around this opening.
We have two weeks to work this one up. Who do you know in
Santa Barbara – send them an email. If they have activist
tendencies then get them signed up for the club newsletter – www.sustainabletransportclub.com
If they are not activist oriented then invite them to the take friends
to the movie.
We could car pool or take the train up to work this event and get
Santa Barbara connected to our efforts down here and us connected
to their work. That is how we expand this grass roots effort and
build the network that will help create our sustainable future.
Email us to get involved - movie@rsydney.com
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EV’s on Display this Saturday
Anyone interested in getting on the Electric vehicle bandwagon
will have a great chance to see what the technology looks like this
weekend. The Grand Opening in Westwood (details above) is
bringing together possibly the best display of EV’s ever in
California.
And many of these are available for purchase.
You can talk to the people who drive them and find out how they
work out in real life. Just so you know – they are great.
EV’s have a different way about them and it takes thinking outside
the gas-powered auto to understand them. There are two key
questions to ask your self when thinking about using EV’s. These are:
How many miles do I travel around by immediate neighborhood on
a typical day?
How much of my time is spent going faster than 30 miles an hour
and how much time is spent stopped at a red light?
Ok, that last one is two questions combined but that is because
they are connected. NEV and bicycle riders understand why they
are connected because we spend lots of time watching people
speed past us only to overtake them at the next red light. The
actual speed across town has to take that stopping into account.
Once you have answered these two questions then you are ready to
see if an EV might fit into your life as an alternative to the fume
spewing internal combustion machines you use now.
Come on over on Saturday and join the zero emissions club.
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Extreme MPG – Power requirements for electric scooters
How does 400mpg sound!
That is how the rough numbers work out on the electric scooters.
Here is the basic formula using numbers given by two
manufactures and the electrical and gasoline prices in our area:
30 miles per charge / 2 kWh per charge = 15 miles per kilowatt-hour
at 12.7 cents per kilowatt-hour for residential power that is 0.85 cents per mile
At $3.40 per gallon that works out to equivalent to 401 mpg
There is another basis for comparison and that is to use the energy
in the electricity compared to the energy in the gasoline.
1 kilowatt-hour of electricity = 3413 British thermal unit (Btu)
1 U.S. Gallon of gasoline = 114,132 btu
These work out to
33.45 kWh/gallon of gas
at 15 Miles/ kilowatt-hour
that comes to 502 mpg
That is EXTREME MPG - but does reality match these calculations.
Hooking up a power meter to the charger for the scooters lets us
track the amount of electricity used to power the scooters for a
specific distance.
Using a 1000-watt brush less motor on 40 amp hour gel cell
batteries we attained the following results:
Miles driven = 81
Kilowatt hours used = 9.8
That works out to 8.27 miles per kilowatt-hour or 1.56 cents per mile or
220 mpg equivalent.
There is, however, another part of that picture. That is the part
where the gel cells have a charging pattern that is not fully
explored at this writing. The batteries charge up to full voltage and
the chargers shut off. Then they rest for a while and the charger
kick in again. This continues as long as the charger is connected.
This adds extra kilowatt-hours of charging that are included in
these calculations. IF we do not include this, then the equation
works out at 14.4 miles per kilowatt-hour. Which puts us back on
the manufactures numbers.
The Silicon batteries do not have this characteristic. The chargers
for these shut off once and then no more charging occurs. Silicon
batteries left for three weeks will only take 1/10th of a kilowatt-
hour before they stop charging. Tests are underway to see how
this works out when using these batteries.
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MoveOn.org is pushing “Oil Free” initiative.
Most of you are probably tuned into MoveOn – but just in case…
Last month, 3 million MoveOn members came together and said,
"Enough. We want clean, renewable energy, and we want it now!"
That's why today, we're launching one of our biggest campaigns in
the last year—-a campaign for an "Oil-free Congress" to demand
that Congress end America's oil addiction and move us toward a
cleaner future. We'll pressure members of Congress to make a real
difference—-and if they don't listen, we'll hold them accountable
in November.
To start, we need to ask every member of Congress, including
yours, to go "Oil-Free" and sign a pledge not to take any money
from the oil industry. Can you sign this letter telling Rep. Waxman
to take the pledge?
http://political.moveon.org/oilfree/?id=8072-4255632-jQKK8sx.wc3RxErcPptnfg&t=3
We're working with a bunch of groups, like Oil Change
International and the Center for American Progress in the
Separation of Oil and State coalition to get every representative to
sign the pledge not to take any more oil money. Together, we sent
official pledge cards to all of Congress last week. But this call will
be much more powerful if Rep. Waxman hears from thousands of
his constituents about it, too.
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