Battery Electric Vehicles of Bristol
by Sami Grover, Carrboro, NC, USA 
on 04. 7.07
Bristol, UK, just keeps on popping up on Treehugger. Most recently we talked about the potentially ground breaking Transition City Bristol initiative, a community lead process to plan for peak oil, but as we noted then, it doesn’t end there. It’s also home to not one, but three local, organic eateries (here, here and here), and innovative wind energy projects here and here. Now we have another project to add to the list – Battery Electric Vehicles of Bristol. BEVOB is a community led group based in and around Bristol and the southwest of England to promote the use of Electric Vehicles (or EVs) as safe, reliable and environmentally responsible alternatives to the internal combustion engine. The group’s website includes examples of a few members’ vehicles, competitions and information on vehicles for sale. The organization recently celebrated the grand opening of the first public EV charging points in the South West (an event which included test-rides on a Vectrix) and apparently interest is building in the town for viable alternatives to the combustion engine.
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Being from Bristol, I was happy to see this article, keep them coming. Bristol is one of the greenest cities in the UK!
Very inspiring, Bristol folks! Watch out for the Zivan battery charger on that Reva, though (details in one of my EV Diaries).
Here's what we're doing in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where we have 1.4M cars in the region and only 35 licensed electric vehicles registered:
My EV Diary, part IV, link
http://ev-diary.blogspot.com/
Wow! We've been Hugged!
Yes, Bristol is a fantastic green city. With the work that we (BEVOB) are putting in we hope to have many more electric vehicles in our fine City. With congestion charging rumored to be on the way and gridlock already causing chaos more and more people are starting to think about how an EV could save them money, pollution and the environment. It's not always big steps but the daily life-activities which can make a difference when done in a green way.
Where can one look at ev cars like yours I'ed like to look at one in the U.S. and one that would do 45 to 50 mph and have a range of about 40 miles would do about 85 to 90 % of my in town travles. But not at the cost of an arm or leg.
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Try checking out www.zapworld.com
It's good to hear BP & GM talk about alternative fuels, but 50 years to implement is too long.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/05/news/companies/bigoil_hydrogen/index.htm
Perhaps this link will spark more attention:
http://www.chevrolet.com/electriccar/
It is GM's electric concept car the Chevy Volt. If more people begin to demand alternative fuel cars, we should be able to speed the rate at which the technology is developed.
We have started an Investor Forum where Investors can meet and discuss topics like this:
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