Minneapolis/St Paul National Drive Electric Week

I'll post pics later. We had a peak of about 70 EVs here in front of the State Capitol. There's one Tesla Roadster and a Corvette conversion. There are 3 Focus Electrics and we're all parked together.

The most popular EV at our event was the Tesla Model S (19). Second was the Leaf (18), then the Volt (14), C-Max Energi (4), then the Focus Electric (3) then the Mitsubishi MiEV (3) & & Plug-in Prius (3), then the Smart ED (1) & Ford Transit EV (1) & Tesla Roadster (1) & 1987 Corvette EV conversion (1) & Honda motorcycle conversion (1).

I had the hood of the Focus Electric open and the foam cover removed which made it very popular. I got to talk to a lot of EV owners about it as well as a number of people who came because they're interested in EVs but don't own one yet.

The first two pics are wide shots of the street that was closed off for the event in front of the state capitol building.





Here is a pic of our Focus Electric with my parents' C-Max Energi behind it along with the Tesla Roadster & a Model S in the background (edited with Instagram).



Here is a pic of the three FFEs that were there.



Here are two pics of the Corvette conversion.





And one of the EV motorcycle.



And one of the Tesla Roadster. The owners have 37k miles on it. It is number 105. They have lost about 10% of the original range.


There was also a Leaf owner there with the first Leaf sold in MN. They have just over 30k miles on their Leaf and have not lost any of their bars of HVB capacity. They said that they almost never charge higher than the 80% setting Nissan built in to the early Leafs.

More pics will soon be posted on the MN Plug-in Vehicles Owners Circle website.

Great turn out. Thanks for the pictures.

That is great!

Here's a link to a video of the event. You can see the three Focus Electrics about 40 seconds in. Ours has its hood open and my parents' C-Max Energi was right behind with its hood open.