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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.

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.

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.

Make sure you check out all the exciting events Gateway EV will be attending this summer. Check out the Events section for more information.

Thanks to everyone that attended our December monthly meeting. It was a great opportunity to meet with members and guest to talk about EVs and our club. Charlton Jones gave a introductory presentation on EV wiring and his power point is available below. We would also like to express our gratitude to Schlafly for allowing the use of the room at their Bottleworks location. Nothing beats beer, friends, and EV technology discussion..

• An Introduction to EV Wiring

We have acquired a venue for our monthly meetings. Starting in December our meetings will be held the first Sunday of each month at Schlafly Bottleworks and will start at 2:00 pm. You do not need to be a member to attend these meetings.

          Schlafly Bottleworks
          7260 Southwest Ave.
          Maplewood, MO 63143

These meetings are a great way to get together and talk about electric cars, the group, or just about anything else. Look forward to seeing you all there.