Posts tagged: EV

New Going Green Class on March 24 at RCCC

New Energy Saving Class at RCCC on Saturday, March 24 from 9-11 AM. Topics include Electric Cars, Charging Stations, Energy Audits, Hyper-Insulation, Solar Thermal, Solar PV, Biomass, Pellet heating, biomass and much more.

Tuesday February 21st, 2012 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Our Second Leaf

I picked up our second 2012 Nissan Leaf on Saturday, January 28.  It was definitely worth waiting for.  Kevin Murphy of Ben Mynatt Nissan on the right sold both Leafs. The first Cayenne Red 2012 went to my wife, Kat, and the Ocean Blue 2012 SL shown is my new baby.   It is absolutely [...]

Tuesday January 31st, 2012 in , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Power Your Home from a Leaf

Nissan is reported to be working on a home adapter to allow a Leaf EV to provide power to a home, according to (click to read stories referenced) [Bloomberg and PC World via Consumer Reports] So perhaps sometime this year our Leafs could stand in as a generator!

Monday January 30th, 2012 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Any RV Park or Campground is a Charging Station

It occurred to me a while back that with a portable or plug-connected Level-2 charger, such as the Leviton Evr-Green 160, any RV Park could be a charging station for an electric vehicle.  This really increases the coverage for someone with a portable station. Apparently, someone else has thought of this too. Read the story [...]

Saturday January 28th, 2012 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Trouncing the EV Powered by Coal Generated Electricity Argument

Once and for all, a collection of references to trounce the *baseless* debate / question of comparing the CO2 released by an Electric Vehicle charged with coal generated electricity to a gasoline car.

Sunday January 22nd, 2012 in , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Our New GE WattStation — Made in NC

We powered up our second electric vehicle charging station today!  It is a General Electric WattStation made in Mebane, North Carolina.  I was really pleased to know that this product was made in the USA and even better about 100 miles from my home in NC. The WattStation is a level 2 charger.  It charged [...]

Friday January 6th, 2012 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Story on Our Solar-Powered Nissan Leaf by the Center for the Environment

Story on our solar powered all-electric car by the Catawba Center for the Environment Campaign for Clean Air: http://www.campaignforcleanair.org/news-reader/items/salisbury-family-powers-car-with-solar-rays.html

Wednesday December 28th, 2011 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Cost to Run an Electric Car for the First 1000 miles…

Real numbers on the electricity cost to run an all electric Nissan Leaf for the first 1,000 miles.

Thursday December 15th, 2011 in , , , , | No Comments »

Count Down to the Leaf Launch and Duke Charge Carolinas Pilot!

Big News! We are proud to be a part of Duke Energy’s Charge Carolinas Electric Vehicle (EV) pilot project.  I applied to the pilot program after reading about it in an email from Duke’s PEV newsletter that I subscribed to at the Nissan Leaf event at Concord Mills.  After a site assessment and filing out [...]

Tuesday October 11th, 2011 in , , , , , | No Comments »