So, my favorite EV News site at transportevolved.com asked what do you have to be EV Thankful for… (Interestingly they’re based in the UK, but with a LARGE audience of the American EV Community) After over 21 months of EV driving and meticulous postings of my electric mileage, it’s finally happened. Sometime in the past … Continue reading EV Thanks on Thanksgiving 2013… 50,000 all electric miles!
So, it would seem that the 32 charging stations at the City of Industry Metrolink station is a great benefit for some Metrolink commuters around the City of Industry. Sure, the station is closed on the weekends (from 7:30 pm Friday until approximately 5:00am Monday) which is a schedule that I have found to be … Continue reading Follow up to the City of Industry Metrolink charging stations, and uncovering a hidden EV benefit for a select few.
So… Yesterday was “hump day”… Not really sure which day to count as I picked up the car on the evening of February 23, 2012 and I have to return it back to BMW on February 24, 2014… The Leap Year throws me off, so I guess a post on the 25th would be the … Continue reading One Year of EV Driving… Pure Joy… The ActiveE and me!
ActiveE, a photo by dennis_p on Flickr. Reached 25,000 Miles a few days ago… Seeing that my one year anniversary will be in a few weeks I figure to write more about my experience then.In the meantime. 25,000 miles all electric. Using a blended 1.5 cents per mile figure (just estimating here since it’s closer … Continue reading Some significant mileage… 25,000 Miles and counting…
If you were sent here by this month’s BMW Electronaut Newsletter, welcome to my blog. I am STILL drafting my Real Goods post and need to come up with how to handle calculating cost per kWh over the solar array. Since Sunday, September 23, 2012 is National Plug In Day, I figured to write about … Continue reading National Plug in Day… Pre-event planning.
This update on Charge It! is a case of great food and Leaf/MiEV – CHAdeMO – Level 3 (L3) envy… Huh? Well, I love my ActiveE. It gets me almost everywhere. However, since the J1772 Level 3 standard is yet to be published, BMW released the car with Level 1 and Level 2 charging capability. Level … Continue reading Charge It! – Great food near public chargers #5 in an ongoing series – Mateo Street – East side of Downtown Los Angeles, CA (Arts District)
Yes, I’m still here. I’ve been busy with our ActiveE and have been on vacation on top of that… I promise at least two more ChargeIt! articles for two really great food AND charging facilities (here’s one of them – Gjelina at Electric Avenue in Venice). [Here’s the other Church and State – Mateo Street … Continue reading Ping…
It’s time for an update. As a response to my $0.31 per kWh price for charging my ActiveE on Southern California Edison’s Domestic Tariff, I signed up for Electric Time Of Use (TOU). Now there are TWO flavors of the TOU tariff. One requires a separate meter, the other does not. The approximate cost for … Continue reading Update to back of napkin math using first month’s SCE Time of Use Tariff
Electric car at the recycling center 2, a photo by dennis_p on Flickr. My name is Dennis and I am an Electronut! Not an Electronaut as BMW wants to call those lucky few who were able to sign up to be part of the two year closed lease program that BMW had for its ActiveE phase of … Continue reading About Me