Hi everyone, I just received the email below from Karl Nurse, one of the organizers of the Pinellas Living Green Expo that will be held on June 16-17 at the Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. They are wondering if the Florida EAA would be interesting in exhibiting at the event, which last year had an attendance of 5,000 people.
This would be a real stretch for me, not impossible, but a real stretch. I would need 5 enroute charging stops -- Ft. Pierce, Cocoa, Winter Garden, Lakeland, and Tampa -- to drive the RAV to St. Petersburg. So that would probably take me 3 days just to get there and then 3 days for the return trip, thus 8 days for the event and round-trip travel time. So I'll have to think about that and see whether I can afford to give up that much time for this one event. There might be some ancillary benefits and an ulterior motive for me to make such a trip, namely to get charging stations set up in Lakeland, Tampa, and St. Petersburg -- in addition to those we already have up in Cocoa, Orlando, and Winter Garden -- to complete a Central Florida cross-peninsula charging corridor, linking the east and west coasts. Again, it's something I'll have to think about and consider. There are others of you for whom it would be considerably less onerous to make the journey to St. Petersburg. With a 160-mile range on the eBox, Andrew could make the trip with only two enroute charging stops -- one in Cocoa and another in Lakeland, which I would imagine could probably be done in about a day and a half. And of course Shawn could make the trip in his plug-in Prius in just 5 hours. So that is something that the two of you, Shawn and Andrew, might want to consider. St. Petersburg is a very progressive and environmentally-conscious city. Good potential market for you there, Shawn. If any of you are interested in attending and exhibiting at the St. Petersburg Living Green Expo, please contact organizer Karl Nurse at the email address below, and could you also please let me know if you're planning to go. If enough people want to do this, that might just inspire me to make the 8-day trip and work on getting charging stations set up in Lakeland, Tampa, and St. Petersburg. By the way, I have the exhibitor application form (pdf) for this event, which Karl sent me. Let me know if you want it and I'll email it to you. Charles Whalen Florida EAA Delray Beach, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charles Whalen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:04 AM Subject: RE:Pinellas Living Green Expo. Mr. Whalen, The 2nd annual Pinellas Living Green Expo will be held on June 16 & 17th at the Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. I was wondering if your organization might be interested in having a booth and/or a display of cars outside. Last year we had five thousand people attend. This year we are adding a film festival. I am not sure if we are showing who killed the electric car. However, the general tone is in this range. Attached is an application form. More information is available at ourwebsite: www.Pinellaslivinggreenexpo.org. Karl Nurse [EMAIL PROTECTED] 727-572-9311 _______________________________________________ FLEAA Mailing List listserv@floridaeaa.org http://www.floridaeaa.org
