National Drive Electric Week 2016 – Santa Monica, Long Beach, and a wrap-up

I usually attend two or three of the National Drive Electric Week (formerly National Plug In Day) events a year. I’ve always found them to be fun and key to confirming me as a member of the rEVolution. This past year’s events in Diamond Bar and Los Angeles were published on this blog pretty much as … Continue reading National Drive Electric Week 2016 – Santa Monica, Long Beach, and a wrap-up

The Long Way Round – Summary and Lessons

With a hat-tip to the 2004 TV mini-series from Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. This is the thirteenth day in a series of posts written about our 2016 EV Roadtrip written in the same manner as our 2015 trip.  Here, There, and EVerywhere Trip – Day 01, i.e. summaries written for each day of the trip, published each day, this time two … Continue reading The Long Way Round – Summary and Lessons

The Long Way Round – Day 07

With a hat-tip to the 2004 TV mini-series from Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. This is the seventh day in a series of posts written about our 2016 EV Roadtrip written in the same manner as our 2015 trip.  Here, There, and EVerywhere Trip – Day 01, i.e. summaries written for each day of the trip, published each day, this time two … Continue reading The Long Way Round – Day 07

The Long Way Round – Day 06

With a hat-tip to the 2004 TV mini-series from Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. This is the sixth day in a series of posts written about our 2016 EV Roadtrip written in the same manner as our 2015 trip.  Here, There, and EVerywhere Trip – Day 01, i.e. summaries written for each day of the trip, published each day, this time two … Continue reading The Long Way Round – Day 06

National Drive Electric Week 2016 – Los Angeles

One of my favorite National Drive Electric Week events last year was the one in Los Angeles.  Mainly because almost all the EVs and PHEVs available on the market were represented by the OEMs for test drives at that event. I was able to test drive the new, larger battery Nissan Leaf last year and … Continue reading National Drive Electric Week 2016 – Los Angeles

Trip to our first Tesla Annual Meeting – Northbound (Day One)

Go ahead to Day Two. Here’s a link. Looking for my thoughts and theories on the point to the long history lesson covered at the meeting. Here’s a link. For as long as we’ve owned stock in Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) we’ve always submitted our votes via the Internet and virtually “attended” the annual meeting via … Continue reading Trip to our first Tesla Annual Meeting – Northbound (Day One)

To the Bay Area and Back in One Day

A little over a week ago, we returned home from a day trip to the Bay Area and back. We didn’t set out on Thursday morning to go on a 22 hour road trip. We figured to find a place to stop overnight once we got to the Bay Area.  However, we did end up on … Continue reading To the Bay Area and Back in One Day

Lessons Learned from our first Cross Country EV Trip

Read the trip from the beginning, click here. Missed Day 23, click here. On the map, blue is our Eastbound journey and yellow is Westbound. Hopes and Dreams When we made this journey of 8,245 miles, in 23 days, through 26 states (including California), Our mileage when we left on Day One. Our mileage upon … Continue reading Lessons Learned from our first Cross Country EV Trip

Here, There, and EVerywhere – Day 23

A quick note of thanks to the Beatles for inspiring the title for this series of posts. This is the twenty-third in a series of posts written about our trip that will be published four weeks to the day of the trip. Missed Day 22, click here. Day 23 – Drive on Sunday, May 24, … Continue reading Here, There, and EVerywhere – Day 23

Here, There, and EVerywhere – Day 22

A quick note of thanks to the Beatles for inspiring the title for this series of posts. This is the twenty-second in a series of posts written about our trip that will be published four weeks to the day of the trip. Missed Day 21, click here. Day 22 – Drive on Saturday, May 23, … Continue reading Here, There, and EVerywhere – Day 22