I had the pleasure of presenting to a small group at the Hardwood Creek library in Forest Lake, MN. I would like to thank librarian Cristina for reaching out and organizing this talk. Hardwood Creek is a nice facility and I had a small, but interesting and engaged group. I’ve included the presentation version I …
A number of automotive manufacturers, charging equipment manufacturers and charging networks have announced they will support, and/or change their product’s charging connection to NACS (North American Charging Standard). Tesla coined the term, NACS, in late 2022 to rebrand the then-Tesla exclusive EV charging connection used on all Tesla vehicles sold in North America, and to …
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It was a nice coincidence that Paula Carlson of Fairchild-Nichols library filled out the Shift2Electric contact form on May 17, requesting an electric vehicle talk. As we corresponded, a plan emerged to connect our planned July trip to Connecticut to an available date when I could provide the talk in-person. Thus, on July 26 Karen …
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I was invited to present at the Scandia community center on a beautiful evening that included about 10 electric vehicle owners and their vehicles. Three of the vehicles were owned by Scandia Electric; a Ford F150 Lightning, Ford eTransit commercial van and a Chevrolet Bolt. Great people who you can contact for your EV charging …
Part 1 of this series outlined the total increase in grid capacity needed for a 100% electrified light duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in the U.S. by 2040. It showed that with no additional technology, the required grid capacity increase is on the low end of historic grid growth. This part will cover a set of …
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Handling a 100% electric vehicle (EV) scenario will require significant upgrades and modifications to the existing electric grid, but how much? And how does that compare to historic grid growth? We’ll start with an estimate of the additional grid capacity needed for a fully electrified light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in the U.S. and then compare …
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April 27 was the first scheduled time for a new community education class I am offering through Robbinsdale Community Education. Here is the registration link. Since I only had one person sign up, I offered to do an in-person session at our house so I could show him our two EVs close up. He even …
The Environmental Justice group at First Universalist is running a Drawdown Carbon program to help members learn about what they can do to reduce their carbon footprint. After their community dinner on April 19, 2023, I was invited to provide my EV presentation as part of the Drawdown program. The slide deck did not change …
On March 29, 2023 I gave an Introduction to Electric Vehicles talk at the Shoreview library. There was a brief car show beforehand and then about 50 people came in to listen to my presentation (plus a few on Zoom). It was a great group who were engaged and asked some good questions after I …
In early January, I got a member e-newsletter from the Electric Vehicle Association announcing that the annual meeting would be held January 28 in Carlsbad CA at the headquarters of Aptera Motors. (Here’s my referral link if you are interested in reserving one for yourself). Being newly re-retired (mandatory leave from contracting), this seemed like …
