SJEAA funded EV charging at Soquel/Front Parking Garage Santa Cruz CA

[Bruce EVangel Parmenter <brucedp@yahoo.com>]

Reading Shari's POST
Santa Cruz Charging Stations
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVList/message/19648
confirms what I have been waiting for.

Yahoo maps show the location at
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=126+Soquel&csz=95060

I have sent a message to the city of Santa Cruz asking if the 
parking is free, or if not, what is the fee. If we drive the 
2000' climb to the coast, we will need to know what to expect.

The charger heads were donated from San Jose EAA treasury funds.
As a nonprofit 501 3 C organization, we promote EV use. 

Having EV charging in Santa Cruz is a good match for the 
Santa Cruz community. The San Jose EAA is pleased we could 
assist the City of Santa Cruz with this installation.

...
A little background on this installation had many EAA members
involved. I know Sahri had been trying to get the City of Santa 
Cruz interested. 

At last year's Silicon Valley EAA Rally held at Stanford U., 
I was approach by a Santa Cruz resident who had several EVs 
and wanted to get help putting EV charging in at Santa Cruz. 

I advised him of the local chapter's goal to provide funding to 
help with the costs of installing the AVCON powerpak charging 
heads that also have a 120VAC duplex receptacle.

He was keen to explore this. So hooked him up with Ron Freund 
of our http://geocities.com/sjeaa chapter to achive this goal.

>From Shari's POST is seems everyone who was involved (there were
many) did well. Any EAA Chapter or EV group could do the same
thing.

It will take $1000 of treasury funding for the hardware, and
the member volunteer efforts to find a willing host. 

The location of the EV spot should be not located in a primary 
spot. The spot need to not have a gas car parked there, so EVs 
will have charging access.

The funds mentioned include: an AVCON powerpak, a duplex 120VAC
gfi outlet with a weather tight tymac enclosure, and an EAA
EV parking sign.

The EAA EV parking sign like the AVCON adaptor is sold at cost.
The sign is made with the same high quality materials as city
parking sign. So, with quantity purchases, the cost is kept 
low for EAA chapters or EV groups to use for this purpose.

Our local chapters give one EAA EV parking sign away for a 
new EV charging installation at companies or businesses.

Image if every EAA chapter or EV group put in one EV charging
spot.

 -Bruce
  :: Loves to charge at 100 amps ::






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