Hey EVeryone!
Today, I went over to my local, publicly-owned electric utility because they were having their open-house!
The event had free compact fluorescent light bulbs, tips for energy saving, the bicycle you can pedal to generate electricity, and OF COURSE and electric car and motorcycle.
The EVent was not especially well attended (they didn't have much advertising) but there was a nice little rush of soccer moms and children right around lunch time.
I did have one especially nice conversation with an older gentleman and his son about economy, renewable energy, and transportation. He used to have a Geo Spectrum too, same as me!
I was a little excited because this was the first "official" time that I showed off the Electro-Metro!
Yesterday, I got the 12V charger wired up to automatically run from the "gas-cap" inlet, and mounted the 72V charger down to a proper-size piece of plexiglass in back.
I moved the ammeter shunt up to under the hood, and shoved the extra wires under the dashboard.
When I got the car there in the morning, I wiped the dash down with Armor-All.
Later in the day, I got a chance to chit chat with the Utility Director. I know they have some money to use to promote conservation, energy efficiency, etc, and I commented about the possibilty of some sort of "sponsorship".
He basically said: "What did you have in mind? Put something together and send it to my assistant."
What do you guys think? What should I ask for, and how should I present it?
I would love to get some nice graphics done up for the car. Maybe listing gas-saving tips, references to fuel economy web pages, etc. Those "full-body" wraps are neat too, but I have no idea what they cost.
PS: If you look real close, you can see that I put both of the mini-Geo-hub-caps on the side facing the crowd and set them so they both faced "up"!