North Texas Electric Auto Association

Garland Goes Green

Date : Saturday September 26th, 2009
Time : 10 AM to 5 PM
Website : www.GarlandGoesGreen.org
Location : Garland, Texas at Garland ISD Special Events Center

We had a lot of fun at the Garland Goes Green event.  There was a lot of great people we met there.  We had DJ’s Scooter, Jared’s Fiero, Mark’s Mower and John and Nancy’s Sparrow and Fiero at the event.  We started out in the parking lot of the event center and after a few hours we moved to the entrance/exit of the center.  Once we moved up front, we had a ton of people stop by and talk to us at the event.   We had several NTEAA people help out at the event (Brian, Paul, Jaquin, Ron, Jared, John, Nancy, and DJ), many thanks to all of you that helped out.  Hopefully with as many people we talked to at the event we will get more people interested in electric cars.

Dallas Green Festival

Date : Sunday Sep 20th

Time : 11am – 3pm

Location : 521 E. Lawther Dr. Dallas, TX 75218-3311

Website : http://www.greendallas.net/

NTEAA has a lot of fun at the Dallas Green Festival.  We had 4 vehicles there at the show; Brecher’s Fiero and Sparrow, Neil’s VW Golf and the gentelman who drives the NiMh Ford Ranger.  Channel 4 did an interview with Neil in front of the Sparrow.  Although they did not use the clip during the news.  There was just a quick flash of the sparrow during the news.

At one point a guy named David drove up on his electric bike he parked the bike and visit with us. His bike has a plywood frame, downhill bike components, an etek motor, a 48V pack and an Alltrax controller.  This was a pretty neat looking EV and had some great performance.

We also ran into another gentleman who has a GPS Motorcycle (which is an EV motorcycle).   He will be coming to some of our future events, he hopes to get a lot of questions answered.  He is currently experiencing problems with his motorcycle.

But all in all, we talked to a lot of interesting people and hopefully we will have more people coming to our monthly meetings.

Here is an email we got from the Green Festival :

Dear Green Festival 2009 Exhibitors,

Thank you so much for making this year’s Green Festival such a success!  We could not have been more pleased with the result from the exhibitors to the weather to the guest turn-out.

Over 1000 people attended the event this year at the Bath House and walked, biked, or drove away with more knowledge about living a green lifestyle than they came with.

This event would not be possible without each of your support and unique expertise.  The goal of the City of Dallas Office of Environmental Quality is to build a greener Dallas .  The Green Festival brought together over 50 green exhibitors in non-profit, government, higher education, and business as well as interested Dallas residents with the unified goal of building a greener Dallas and a cleaner, healthier world.

We hope you found the event productive towards your own green goals and I look forward to receiving your feedback survey (see attachment).  We want to make this annual event better each time.

Again, thank you.  You have made a difference.

Best wishes and stay green,

Hannah Kolni

John thanks everybody who helped make the Garland parade a real success. We were a croud pleaser!  Three cars, three scooters, one barstool and one Mennonite buggy.

The scooters and barstool were zipping around the cars down the steet getting everyone’s attention and then they saw the car.  Eventually when they got to see the Sparrow pulling the Marlo’s House horse and buggy, they were all awestruck.  Everyone pointed to that float with excitement!

Everyone had a good time and it was a lot of fun to see so many excited faces at the parade.  We hope that we can do more parades in the future because this was a lot of fun!

Here is some quick video’s of the Parade :

Mark\’s Video of the Garland Parade

Justins Video of the Garland Parade