Lance Johnson

Electricity isn’t just charging up the car scene these days. Electric motorcycles are also gaining momentum and ZevMoto has your chance to demo their latest offerings. ZevMoto is bringing their ‘Zero Motorcycle Road Tour’ to Saint Louis this Saturday March 27th. The session is 9am-12pm at
La Quinta Inn & Suites St. [...]

Our own Jack Rickard’s site was blogged about over on Autoblog Green today. I had the privilege of meeting Jack at the recent Tesla Motor’s Tour event we had in January. While I was talking with him it was evident he had some significant experience with EV conversions. If you haven’t checked out [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]