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Due to the holiday weekend we are canceling the EV meeting this month (9/5/2010). Please come and join us next month.

Gateway EV will once again have a booth at the Earth Day Festival in Forest Park at the Muny on Sunday April 25th from 11am to 6pm.   In addition to a couple of our member’s vehicles, we’ll be joined this year by Electric Cars of Springfield (MO).  ECOS will be displaying their Fun vehicle.  Also special thanks to ECOS for sponsoring our appearance at Earth Day by covering our exhibition expenses.

Directions and map to Earth Day Festival.

We’ll see you there!

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. Louis Maryland Heights
12330 Dorsett Road
St. Louis, MO 63043

Stop on by and checkout their complete line of bikes.

More Info Here

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 his site you should. It has tons of high quality videos from his previous, current, and future conversions.

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 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

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 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.

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.

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.