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- From: jciccare@adobe.com (John Ciccarelli)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Solectria EV
- Summary: Santa Clara County General Services Agency is getting some
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.183229.3017@adobe.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:32:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.025025.23364@s1.gov>
- Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
- Reply-To: jciccare@adobe.com (John Ciccarelli)
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- Organization: Adobe Systems, Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1993Jan21.025025.23364@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >
- > In the most recent (Jan. 1993) BART Times pamphlet I got at a
- >BART station, I saw some interesting news...
- >
- > One article was called "Get a Charge in the Volts-Wagen",
- >describing the article's author's experience with a new electric car,
- >a Geo Metro converted to run on batteries by the Solectria Corp...
- >....
- > The BART connection to electric cars? BART and PG&E are
- >founding members of CalStart, a public/private consortium hoping to
- >build a California electric-car industry and BART is involved in the
- >National Station Car Consortium and the American Public Transit
- >Association's Electric Car Task Force, which hope to push small
- >electric cars for local trips and for commuting to park-and-ride lots.
- >
- > Also in the works, courtesy of CalStart, is some 160 charging
- >stations for electric cars across the state.
-
- The Mercury News ran a detailed test-drive and review of the Solectria
- "Force" on the front page of the Friday "Drive" section several weeks ago.
- I believe the Santa Clara County General Services Agency is getting three
- of them.
-
- /John
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