Advocacy

“We were reminded (June 4) that in a post-bubble credit collapse, economic recoveries are typically fragile and susceptible to periodic setbacks,”
David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff

On the Sparrow_EV mailing list Dana Myers (head of Myers Motors) posted something about how the government might be about to change the definition of motorcycles to redefine three wheelers as not motorcycles. Maybe.

The current effort is a data gathering proposal that's aimed at understanding why the fatality rate for motorcyclists is rising faster than the ownership growth rate.

The U.S. Government is collecting comments about this.

Being recently introduced to the entry level world of EVs, I'm finding myself seriously questioning to motives of some laws regarding the use of small electric scooters(<20mph max). Like many places in the US, PA laws classify them as "motor vehicles" that are prohibited on public roads, sidewalks, as well as designated bicycle/pedestrian trails.

This video was created for the AARP U@50 video contest and placed second

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

New York Ripe for Electric Cars, Study Says
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/new-york-ripe-for-electric-cars-study-says/

This is supposedly derived from a report by The McKinsey group - but I looked around their website and couldn't find the report.

The following is an excerpt of the announcement. The "consultation" includes both these EPV's and Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (a.k.a. electric bicycles).
Published: Tuesday, 12 January 2010

It's not often you get to raise electric cycling with a panel of cycling policy folk that vary from the NYC Transportation Commissioner and the founder of the Congressional Bike Caucus to David Byrne (author of Bicycle Diaries and formerly of the Talking Heads.) I did last night in a forum in DC.

The UK Energy Research Centre is Britain's official research center for energy issues. They've got a series of interesting looking reports and I'm currently making my way through one on peak oil.

http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/support/Global%20Oil%20Depletion

There was a statement in the introduction that so clearly encapsulates the problem I want to post this for discussion. The report is on the above URL and is hot off the presses having been released on Oct 8, 2009.

It's Keith here, and I am looking for EV builders in the Orlando/Cocoa/Melbourne, FL and surrounding area for interviews of builders of EVs. All kinds of vehicle are welcome. If it flies, drives, or swims, please bring your vehicle to Melbourne Saturday September 26th, at 4 pm. We will be interviewing EV builders about their vehicles. We want to ask why you built your vehicle, how did you do it, what motivates you, and any backstory that you wish to tell. The interviews are for an up-and-coming TV show about electric vehicles and alternative energy.

Today I was at an amazing meeting - the San Francisco Bay Area governments (and some businesses) are working diligently to make changes to build up infrastructure and code changes so that the coming wave of electric vehicles will have an easy time of being used. Today's meeting was one in a series of meetings where they're going over the issues.