North Texas Electric Auto Association

(From Mike B.)

Turned out to be a nice (WINDY) day in Sherman Texas, for it’s Annual Earth Day Festival.

Forgot camera, took/posted some horrible photos from my phone, couldn’t see the display from the sun, apparently I had it set for fluorescent lighting.  Made some very weird looking photos.

Time : 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Location : Plano Centre

Address : 2000 E Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano, TX 75074 Map It

Website : http://www.livegreenexpo.net/exhibitors.html

As usual, this event was a huge success!  I don’t think they make counter clickers high enough for the number of people there.  We were lucky enough that it only sprinkled on us in the morning but it was clear for the rest of the event, that is until it was over and then it started sprinkling again.  NTEAA wants to give a BIG THANKS to the City of Plano for putting this event on, they were gracious enough to waive the fees for our Non-Profit group this year.  This years event was really organized with volunteers and a big push to make the event be a Zero Waste as possible.  They even had learning “test” for the younger patrons so that they will learn stuff about some of the Exhibits; and best of all, Electric Cars were part of that test!  That was really great to see and be a part of.  Every year this event gets larger and larger.  I (Jared) was finally able to walk around this whole event for a little bit and it was huge; there were tons of exhibitors.   Lots of great products and information, I (Jared) learned a lot about composting and have started my own.   We had 2 electric cars there (Jared’s Fiero and Neil’s Golf) along with DJ’s scooter and some EV components.  We had a good turn out of volunteers to help with our booth.  As usual NTEAA looks forward to next year!

Date :  April 10th, 2010

Time : 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Location : Sam Houston Trail Park at Champion Trails in Irving TX

Address : 333 E. Interstate Highway 635  Irving, TX

Website : http://www.cityofirving.org/begreen/

This a a nice little Earth Day event.  They setup a lot of tents to keep people in the shade as much as possible and they had a lot of booths setup with a wide range of things.  We were able to get 3 Electric Cars; Jared’s Fiero, Don’s Jeep and Neil’s Golf;  there was also Paul’s scooter and Mike’s range extender trailer.   Jared brought a few EV components to put out for display and Paul had his great demo there and with fully charged batteries this time (just poking fun at you Paul).  We had quite a few hands there to help out and we got to talk to a few quite a few people there.

We even met some very interesting people; one that really stick out is the family who is building the SUNN solar powered car with students.  He has an entire classes on understanding the electronics for 1st – 7th grades and for high school’ers they build the SUNN solar powered car.   I hope we will be able to help them in the future.

All in all I think it was a great little event, we got lucky with good weather and we had a good turnout.  We hope they will have another event next year and that we are invited again.