Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Massachusetts electric vehicle advisor?

[Philip Semanchuk (philip]

> On May 17, 2023, at 3:09 PM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> Ooops, I hit send by mistake on an empty message.
> 
> Car sharing seems like a natural feature for cohousing communities.
> There is an ongoing discuission of how to do car sharing in cohousing.
> The mailing list is at https://groups.google.com/g/coho-carshare
> There are approximately monthly Zoom presentations / discussions (get
> details via the mailing list.
> 
> Even better car sharing is a sharing all electric cars (BEV Battery
> electric vehicle), bicycles and rides. Changing from a private gas car
> (ICE - Internal combustion engine ) vehicle to sharing electric cars,
> bicycles and rides as well as using public transportation takes some
> learning and organizing but the benefits are large.
> 
> We ( Becca Brackett of Cedar Cohousing and I) would like to get some
> experience with BEV's so we plan to rent a Nissan Leaf in Providence
> for a round trip to Portland Maine in June. Tho I am sure we can
> figure out how to do this, advice from a cohousing person with BEV
> experience would be nice.
> 
> Anyone willing out there?

The Plug Share web site (it’s also an app) is what I recommend to all new EV 
drivers. It maps charging stations, and it’s not tied to any single charging 
network or vehicle type. Make sure you filter by stations that have the unusual 
CHAdeMO charging port on the Leaf. 

https://www.plugshare.com/

Have fun,
Philip