Cohousing-L Mailing List: community owned electric vehicles

[Audrey Watson (audrey]

Because of insurance issues, within our community there is a separate LLC
that is operating an electric car.  The community is supporting it by
providing a parking space close to where it can be plugged in, and those in
the community that wanted to are paying the costs and upkeep of it as a
separate users group. It is all electric and is a one of a kind older
electric car. 
Luckily a couple of our members like to tinker with things, so have figured
out how to keep it running.  (there have been a few mishaps, like driving
off while still plugged in, etc).
I'm not a member of the users group so I don't know all the details. It is a
very ecologically sound way to do those little errands, like to the grocery
store, where a gas powered car never even has a chance to get warmed up. 
--audrey watson
Winslow cohousing, Bainbridge island, wa

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Cost of living after move in (mrbouchez06 [at] aol.com)
   2. shared electric or other alternative vehicles?
      (Terry (Sarito) Whatley)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:19:28 EST
From: mrbouchez06 [at] aol.com
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Cost of living after move in
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matt, like your attitude - see you at lowes :)
 
n a message dated 12/5/2007 6:41:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
matt [at] technoronin.com writes:

On Wed,  5 Dec 2007, Kay Argyle wrote:

>> I would like to add that you  save some money because of the many items
you
>> can borrow from a  neighbor or the common house rather than buy and store
>>  yourself.
>
> ... Except when you become known in the community as  the go-to person for
> certain items, and you can never remember who was  the last person to whom
> you loaned a much-borrowed tool. Then you end  up owning two, so you'll
have
> one when you need it.

Hmmm, a  reason for me to buy more tools.  I'm totally failing to see a  
downside to this...

-- Matt
It's not what I know that  counts.
It's what I can remember in time to  use.

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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:01:05 -0800
From: "Terry (Sarito) Whatley" <terry.whatley [at] gmail.com>
Subject: [C-L]_ shared electric or other alternative vehicles?
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  Does anyone have any recent experience with community-owned
electric vehicles?  I've spoken with 2 people who had GEMs
who said that they had serious reliability problems.
  Some of our residents are looking into getting a shared electric
vehicle for local travel in this small hilly town.

thanks,
Sarito
Nevada City CoHousing


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