Chico Chapter, Electric Auto Association

Hi Everyone,

The next meeting for the Chico Chapter of the Electric Auto Association will be at  10am on Saturday, May 14.  The meeting location will be at the Brandstatt Brother’s shop, 27 Rose Avenue on the west side of Chico.

For directions, please call 530-343-0331.

If you drive 20k miles a year and your car gets 20 miles-per-gallon, you will spend $5000 a year on gas at $5 a gallon.  If you drive that 20k miles in a plug-in electric conversion vehicle or production electric car, you will spend $500 to $1000 a year.  If you have solar power at home and a free re-charge outlet at work, you’ll drive for free!

At our meeting this month, we will look at the numbers and answer the following questions:

* When does it pay to convert your car to plug-in electric?
* Which cars make good conversions?
* Where are the conversion shops in Northern California?
* How hard is it to do your own conversion?
* What about reliability and repairs?

If you have been thinking about $5 gas and electric cars, please join us next Saturday, May 14th at 10am.

For you British MG fans, we are scheduled to have Peter McWade’s electric MG conversion to admire. You are also welcome to bring any other electric vehicles to meeting.  Thank you for your support.

Jerry Brandstatt, Chapter President

Hi Everyone,

The next meeting of the Chico Chapter of the Electric Automobile Association is on Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 10am.

It will be held at the Chico Nissan dealership located at 575 Manzanita Avenue in Chico.  The topic for the meeting will be the new Nissan Leaf plug-in EV.

In addition to the information provided by the dealership, Bob Jehle (who purchased the first Nissan Leaf in Chico) will be there with his car.  The meeting will start promptly at 10 am in the showroom at the dealership.  This is your opportunity to see the new Nissan Leaf and ask questions.  See you there.

Jerry Brandstatt, President
Chico Chapter, Electric Auto Association

Hi Everybody,

The “Around-the-world-in eighty-days” electric car race is stopping in Redding tomorrow for lunch and a charge.

They will be at the Turtle Bay Exploratory Park and Sundial Bridge at 1pm.  To get there, take I-5 to Hwy 44 west in central Redding.  The park is about one mile west of I-5 on Hwy 44.  Take exit 1, Sundial Bridge Drive to the parking lot.

We will be set up in front of the bridge.  Louis Palmer, the race organizer will speak at a press conference and you can meet and talk to the racers as well as check out their machines.  The racers will be there until about 4pm when they leave for Sacramento.

This Redding event was coordinated by our Chico Chapter, EAA Vice President, Richard van Wyhe working with the City of Redding.  Please come and join us if you can.  You can also follow the race at zero-race.com .  Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Jerry Brandstatt, President
Chico Chapter, Electrical Auto Association

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick reminder that the Chico Chapter of the Electric Automobile Association (EAA) is having its November Meeting this Saturday, Nov 13 at 10 am.

The meeting location is the Brandstatt Brothers’ shop, 27 Rose Ave., on the west-side of Chico.

Our guest, Bryan Belk from Belktronix will present information on controllers.  Also, we will have an up-date on the Zero-Race stop in Redding on Monday Nov. 15.  See you on Saturday.

Sincerely,

Jerry Brandstatt, President
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