Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010

E-LEC-TRICITY

So this semester I am in downtown studio on Hargett St, right in the center of downtown Raleigh! My semester-long group project is all about Electric Vehicles(EV)! We are still in the research stage right now, getting our little hands on every piece of information on EVs and specifically what is happening on the EV front in the Triangle area. We aren't quite sure what we are going to do with this information yet, other than that we are going to keep a bi-partisan stance and not be pro or con on the subject. We want to merely present the facts to the Raleigh general public, and let them decide if this is where Raleigh should be heading. Through all our research, we found that there is surprisingly a ton of stuff going on in the Triangle with EVs! Very fascinating stuff.


This was just an awesome old image I found of Raleigh in 1872... its crazy that used to be all of Raleigh.


There are four EV charging stations currently in the Triangle area, including Cary and Raleigh. By 2015, they plan to have 250 charging stations!


Here is the charging station in Cary. It is at the McDonald's on Kildaire Farm Rd. That whole McDonald's is trying to do the whole "green" thing. We'll see about that.


Look at all these EVs hitting the market in 2010 and 2011!


This is the concept map we created to organize our first batch of information and research. Our complete research wall is due tomorrow.

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