{"id":2180,"date":"2013-09-21T21:32:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T21:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2019-08-05T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T04:00:47","slug":"altcar-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/altcar-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"The 8th annual AltCar Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The BMW i3<\/p><\/div>\n

The 8th annual\u00a0AltCar <\/a>Expo continued in Santa Monica, with marked change and growth. \u00a0The AltCar Expo is a great opportunity to ride and drive some of the latest alternative vehicles and understand ways you can do your part with Climate Change. World Team Now<\/a> visited the Expo on Friday, during the “Fleet Day”, and Saturday for “Public Day”. There we so many inspirational highlights at this year\u2019s event\u00a0(see World Team Now’s photo album<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The AltCar Expo had the latest in various\u00a0Alternative Technology Vehicles: Electric, Hydrogen, Propane, Natural Gas, Bio-Diesel, Hybrid but since World Team Now<\/a> is focused on long term solutions that are\u00a0sustainable\u00a0“cradle to cradle” –we focus on electric, which can be charged by\u00a0renewable\u00a0energy source like; solar, wind or hydro. We love the concept of the solar boat.<\/p>\n

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Ford’s C-Maxx Energi and Fusion informational poster<\/p><\/div>\n

Good old fashion American Ford and Chevy are now gaining strength in the market with electric vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles(PHEVs). \u00a0 The<\/span> C-Max Energi from Ford<\/a> is a promising vehicle that may lead the market in PHEVs eventually, but we could not fully evaluate that from our one test drive experience. \u00a0What is evident is the number of options from each manufacturer who are all now entering either the hybrid, plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles with products to choose from, like <\/span>Chevy\u2019s new<\/span>\u00a0\u201cSpark<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 Nissan continues to surprise improving on their leading EV, here with\u00a0<\/span>Nissan\u2019s souped-up Leaf, <\/span>the Nissan Leaf Nismo RC<\/a>. \u00a0\"20130921_141155\"<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>BMW\u2019s i3<\/a> EV has range and is part of a new brand, <\/span>BMW i<\/a>, consisting of EVs and hybrids. Also, we were impressed by <\/span>Genze (more than a scooter),<\/a> Team Marine, the international flair of participation from the Netherlands constituency, and Lumos.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lumos’ solar carport<\/p><\/div>\n

Lumos<\/a> has a kit solar carport that has game-changing opportunities to source your own energy and help address your utility\u2019s high demand to supply electricity by being able to take advantage of what\u2019s called arbitrage energy by selling back to the electrical grid.\u00a0 V2G (vehicle to grid \u2014 see WTN\u2019s IEEE article “Vehicle Electrification: Status and Issues”<\/a> for more on this) with the option of a net-zero grid-tied building is one of the significant ways each individual can do their part to combat Climate Change and learn to better live in balance with our natural resources. EPA made a solid step in limiting emissions<\/a> Friday of new coal plants to 1,100 pounds of carbon-dioxide per megawatt-hour of power produced.<\/p>\n

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Team Marine in “Volts Watson”<\/p><\/div>\n

The heart of the inspiration was Santa Monica High School\u2019s club Team Marine<\/a>, there to unveil their newly transformed vehicle named Volts Watson \u2013 an old Volkswagen Beetle from 1971 that is now all-electric (see photo album<\/a>). It was a heartwarming experience to see one of the children that I taught to skate, ocean swim and many other of his life\u2019s first experiences, Matthew Zarken, be part of Team Marine. His brother Nicholas was a volunteer for World Team Now last year at AltExpo and wrote this about his experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The RAV4 continues<\/p><\/div>\n

Please come be part of the Team\u00a0\u2014\u00a0see Team Marine\u2019s transformed car, World Team in action, and be inspired to take action \u2014 be part of\u00a0 \u201cDraw the Line\u201d on Climate Change, as day of global action against the Keystone XL pipeline,<\/a> and be for renewable action with your choice to choose your source of energy and what you drive. There were many opportunities to see the evolution of the electric vehicle from its beginning to now \u2013 the growth is remarkable. there was a new milestone with more than 10,000 EVs sold in August. “The 35 million EVs sold in 2012 will rise 3.6 times to nearly 129 million in 2022”, (worldwide and including e-bikes) \u00a0as cited in\u00a0this <\/a>report that\u00a0demonstrates how the vehicle game is changing. Electrifying transportation, like with the solar boat demo-ed here<\/p>\n

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At the solar boat from World Team Now: Jacinta Camacho Kaplan, Laura Fercano Demieri, Liana Foksheneanu, and Suzanne Maxx<\/p><\/div>\n

or connecting directly to renewable energy source– is a sustainable way to go, especially as we improve energy storage capabilities. People are beginning to understand the connection between economics and the ecological. \u00a0There is greater weight placed in their choices and actions when thinking about the next generation to consider more carefully. \u00a0However public adoption and dealership education has just begun \u2013 both of these elements along with supportive policy will contribute to long term rollout of electric vehicles significantly.<\/p>\n

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