I have a problem.
I’m an EV Geek.
Around May 2014, I took a trip to Malaysia for a deeply personal reason and this trip from Southern California required a stop at Hong Kong Airport. At that time, our layover enroute to Kuala Lumpur was a few hours and after a brutal fourteen hour flight from LAX in last minute booked Economy seats on Cathay Pacific, I was pleasantly awoken by the site of a Nissan Leaf just outside the transfer security for in transit passengers.
I enjoyed it so much that I tweeted the following picture giving credit to EVa Air (pun intended.)
These two particular photos that I shot with my Blackberry had garnered hundreds of hits on my Flickr stream which were still unaccounted for.
That was back in May.
This September, I found myself back in Hong Kong enroute to a more fun reason (vacation) and spotted a fleet of the same colored Leaf by the Taxi Rank at Arrival level.
So, I tweeted the following picture out. We were heading into the city, so it was not the best picture in the world… You basically have to blow the picture up and look in the horizon of the background.
Well, today was payback time. We got to the airport early for our onward journey and I was able to take some cool pictures of the Silver Nissan Leaf EV Fleet in Hong Kong.
So, first set of pictures are from the Lantau Island Taxi Line (across from the lot)
Then, I figured to see if I can actually go to the lot that the EVs park at (then thought I better haul out of here, ’cause it wasn’t really “accessible”)
There are a few more pictures on flickr (just click on any of the pictures and click around…)
Either way… Kudos to Hong Kong International Airport for using Nissan Leafs.
[update from the plane… Spotted outside the window as we were preparing to leave HKG]
