Robbinsdale Community Ed Class
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EV talk at Hardwood Creek library
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
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EV talk at Fairchild-Nichols Library, Trumbull CT
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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Robbinsdale Community Ed Class
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
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First Universalist Community Dinner
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
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NE Metro Climate Action presentation
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
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January 2023 Talk at University Lutheran
I accepted an offer to present at University Lutheran Church of Hope in January and it sounds like a fun opportunity. The organizer included this description of what they would like me to cover: Start from scratch with this group: What is an electric car’s engine like, what kind of power cord does it need,
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Community Ed class in Rochester
I am doing another community education class on behalf of Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) on September 27. Details are on the Rochester Community Education website (class page). The title is “Electric Vehicles – Are They Right for You?”, which I think is a great title since that is the question a lot of people are
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Electric Vehicle Primer talk for Marine Community Library
I had the pleasure of speaking to members and friends of the Marine Community Library on September 22, 2022, along with an owner’s car show featuring local EV owners. Along with several Teslas and Chevy Bolts and a Volt, there was a Rivian R1T, BMW i4 (thanks Tia!) and a Kia EV6. I’ve done many
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Electric Vehicle Basics at the Ramsey County Library in Roseville
Summer vacation is over and its time to do some more electric vehicle talks! These slides are from the talk I will give at the Ramsey County Library in Roseville on September 13, 2022. If you are reading this after that day, you may apply past tense to the last sentence 😊. Details are in
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