Welcome
Welcome to the Gateway Electric Vehicle Club's website. We are a registered chapter of the Electric Auto Association (EAA) made up of individuals living in the Saint Louis area that believe electric vehicles (EVs) are an important part of the solution to our global energy crisis. The main goal of our group is to raise awareness around the benefits of EVs. We do this by attending community events, converting and helping others convert their cars into EVs, conducting EV club meetings, and providing EV information to interested parties. If you think our dependence on polluting gasoline burning vehicles needs to come to and end then consider joining our club to help us get our message across. Click on the join us link for more information on how to help.
No February meeting
Jan 30th 2010
The group has decided to cancel February’s meeting so we can all enjoy the Super Bowl. Our next meeting will be Sunday March 7th. We look forward to seeing your there.
Welcome Tesla Motors Tour
Jan 4th 2010
Team Tesla meets Gateway EV Club
Gateway EV warmly welcomed the Tesla Motors Tour on a cold St. Louis Sunday afternoon. The team continues north from St. Louis to the International Auto Show in Detroit. Thanks to Tesla, we discovered a St. Louis Tesla owner and Gateway EV had a record turnout. Please join us to learn about and promote electric vehicles. (We’ll even help you build your own!)
Here is Tesla’s blog post on the visit
Tesla Coming for January 3rd Meeting
Dec 29th 2009
Sunday January 3rd’s meeting will be moved from 2 to 3pm in order to accommodate a special guest. The Tesla Roadster Road Trip team and their Roadster will be stopping by our meeting to show off their car and chat about EVs. Tesla is attempting to break the stereotypes of EVs by driving their #750 Roadster from California to Michigan for the North America International Auto Show.
The meeting is open to GatewayEV members and non-members alike so please come and join us. Remember the meeting location has changed to Schlafly’s Tap Room.
Schlafly’s Tap Room
2100 Locust Street (at 21st)
St. Louis, MO 63103
Meeting Location Change
Dec 27th 2009
We will be moving our monthly meeting location from Schlafly’s Bottleworks facility to their downtown Tap Room facility. This change will take effect for the January 3rd meeting. The meeting time will remain 2pm. The meeting time has also been changed to 3pm.
Schlafly’s Tap Room
2100 Locust Street (at 21st)
St. Louis, MO 63103
GatewayEV.org changes
Dec 26th 2009
GatewayEV.org now has a new look. The new site will make acquiring the latest information from our club even easier. Some of the enhancements include
- Improved news layout section
- Comment sections throughout the site (no login required)
- RSS feed support
- Multi-user edit support for board members. This should improve our frequency of updates to the site
- Site search function
The overall layout of the site hasn’t changed much and we retained our forum section. Let us know if something isn’t working as expected or you have ideas for improvement.
Our Very Own Ron Erb on KDHX
Dec 2nd 2009
Gateway EV’s vice president Ron Erb was on the ‘Earthworms’ environmental radio show broadcasted on KDHX with host Jean Ponzi. He was accompanied by Larry Kinder from LilyPad Ev, who will also be our guest speaker for this weekend’s December Gateway EV meeting. We would like to thank all involved in this broadcast for raising awareness about EVs and EV charging in Saint Louis. If you missed the broadcast you can listen to it off KDHX’s website here and we hope to see you at Sunday’s meeting.
Special Guest for December Meeting
Nov 22nd 2009
The December meeting will have a presentation from the Missouri representative for Coulomb Technologies. This company is spearheading the installation of charging stations for electric vehicles. Having these charging stations around town will aid in opportunity charging EVs while you are at work, the mall, or anywhere else they have them installed. This should be an informative meeting so please stop
by to check it out.
Gateway EV’ers in the news again
Jul 27th 2009
Ron Erb and myself (Lance Johnson) were on the local Saint Louis Fox 2 news last week talking about our electric conversions. Ron’s truck has been completed for awhile now and I am still in the process of converting mine. Check out the story here. Thanks to Paul Schankman from Fox 2 for putting it together.
Monthly Meeting Highlights
Apr 11th 2009
The first few monthly meetings of 2009 have been great for Gateway EV. In January we instituted a type of ‘On The Job Training’ program aimed at getting EV builders and members that would like to get experience building together to help each other out. In February we had John Rosenbaum of Battery Plus stop by and provide an insightful discussion on battery technology and how Battery Plus can help our custom EV builders satisfy their battery needs. In the April meeting Dan Armstrong gave an overview of Rocky Mountain Institute’s Project Get Ready initiative around improving electrical distribution infrastructure in our major cities. Thanks to all the members and guests that attended. We look forward to all these great partnerships in the future.
Upcoming Events in 2009
Apr 11th 2009
Make sure you check out all the exciting events Gateway EV will be attending this summer. Check out the Events section for more information.