Hello to All, Jon \"Sheer\" Pullen wrote:
> This weekend, the members of SEVA (or at least most of them) got invited to > show our vehicles at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue, WA. I went for about six > hours each day and gave my EV speil about a thousand times - and answered > questions from all from electrical engineers to people who could barely > handle the concept of a car that didn't run on gasoline. This is the beauty and value of putting on EV shows like this... besides being a lot of fun and a chance for some full blown EV fellowship with good friends, more importantly, it's our chance to counter and correct the misinformation from the mainstream press and OPEC spin doctors. In my opinion, every EV club, group, or organization should make an attempt to put on at least one show per year like the Gasless EVent, the Canadian EVent, or our own OEVA EVent. > > One person I talked to thought that you could plug the Insight in, and was > actually disappointed when he was told that you couldn't plug it in nor > operate it in a all-electric mode. Shameless plug for OEVA....we now have for sale, T-shirts that say 'It's not Electric, if you can't plug it in!' Contact either myself or Ralph Merwin if any EVers or hybrid folks want one. Yes, I said that right, hybrid folks....like me, there are many Insight and Prius owners, totally turned off by both Honda's and Toyota's stupid mantra 'It charges itself, you don't have to plug it in'. As a hybrid owner, I love wearing the shirt! The shirts are $15, and the money goes into the OEVA kitty to help get the fund ready for next year's EV Awareness Day's BBQ dinner! > > We handed out at least 100 flyers with specs of the car and another 50 with > pro-EV propiganda. I grant that it's unlikely that any of the people we > talked to will take the time to do anything beyond reading the flyer... Don't be too sure on this, Sheer. Our own, now famous 'Jackknife Johnson' got the EV and hybrid bug from coming to our 'EV Awareness Day', and afterwards, bought and restored his e-Datsun pickup, then he and Vera bought their Prius! I could go on to list many here in Portland who saw an EV at past shows, that also went on to build their own EV, buy a hybrid, or both. These same folks later became contributing members of OEVA and now help put on the show. It's a slow process, but one by one, folks are seeing the light, and as the numbers grow, EVs are getting harder to ignore. Sheer deserves a special thank you for his efforts at the SEVA show, as he was constantly spreading the gospel, so much so, that I didn't get much of a chance to hang with him, until the Red Robin dinner. See Ya.......John Wayland
