The 9th Annual Power of DC EV Drag Race This Weekend
Tuesday | August 25, 2009
The 9th Annual Power of DC will be held in HagerstownMaryland August 28-30. The NEDRA Drag racing is just one of several events being held together at the Power of DC.
On Friday evening August 28 there will be an EV Display at the Comfort Suites in Hagerstown. EV goers will also be arriving for the East of the Mississippi EAA (Electric Auto Association) Conference being held at the Hotel. Registration for the Conference is available here. We expect a couple Teslas there as well as many other hot EVs.
On Saturday August 29 will be the AutoCross set up at the Valley Mall in Hagerstown by the Washington DC Chapter of the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). Racing will cost $25.00. spectators can view the event for free. Followed by a special Dinner and Reception at the Golden Coral right behind the AutoCross course at the Valley Mall.
SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!! Yes, on Sunday August 30 at high noon will be the NEDRA Drag Racing at Mason Dixon Dragway in Hagerstown. Racing will cost $25.00. There is a $10.00 fee for spectators. Feel free to hang out with us in the pits. Be on the lookout for dragsters and hot EVs blistering across the drag strip at over 100 mph in the 1/4 mile.
There are plenty of discount rooms left at the Comfort Suites on Dual Highway for $75.00 per night. Call them at (301) 791-8100 and mention "Power of DC" for the discount.
Visit the Power of DC Website for all the info and feel free to contact Chip Gribben at pr@nedra.com or (301) 490-0657.
Upcoming Program of EVents !!!
August 28-30, 2009
Friday August 28
3:00 PMSocial Mixer at Comfort Suites in Hagerstown, MD
5:00"Happy Hour" for further meeting & greeting at Comfort Suites
6:00Order-Your-Own-Pizza for fine out-door, big tent dining on CS lawn
7:30Awards Presentation for EV Heroes
9:00Showing of EV Films of interest
Saturday August 29
7:30 AMBreakfast and General Welcome to conference attendees by our EVADC President, DaveGoldstein, and "Power of DC" Coordinator, Chip Gribben, and "EAA Chapters East" Chair, Charlie Garlow.
8:30Chapter Introductions with description of what they are up to.
9:00Stimulus Plug-in Discussion of enacted Federal Laws for EV/PHEV grants, loans,manufacturing, etc. State level programs with EVADC Veep, Charlie Garlow.
10:00"Power of DC" AutoCross Racing 10 - 3 PM at Valley Mall Shopping Center at Macy's Parking Lot with Chip Gribben, Race Master
3:00 PMU of Delaware V2G Discussion with eBox by Jon Lilley and Nat Pearre, after Wrap up of AutoX at Valley Mall in vacant storefront
4:00Open Session for Review of EVents -- Past and Upcoming -- Solar Taxi, Plug-in Hybrid EV All Around America, Power of One, Renew America Roadtrip, Hybrid Fest; One Gallon Challenge, ... and Fun Run in the Sun with Moderators, Charlie Garlow and Jerry Asher.
5:00New Battery Technologies with Panel of Speakers headed by EVADC President Dave Goldstein
6:00Dinner Banquet at Golden Corral (a "pay as you go" spot)
7:00"Power of DC" Presentation of Awards
7:30Keynote Speaker. Robb Protheroe, Plug In Supply, Inc.on "Converting Prius to PHEV" with Q & A
8:30Breakout Sessions/Discussion of conversions, new OEM, EV Workshop, ...
9:30Wrap Up with "Power of DC" Review with Chip Gribben
Sunday August 30
7:30 AMBreakfasting & Conferencing at Comfort Suites
9:00Building new EAA Education Chapters, promoting growth of existing chapters, Q & A
10:30Demonstrating the Xtreme BugE, Other presentations of papers by Chapters/members.
12:00"Power of DC" Electric Drag Racing with on-going EVADC-sponsored BBQ by the Murthas at Mason-Dixon Speedway, Mason-Dixon Speedway at Hagerstown, MD
4:30Announcement of Winners of Drag Race/Times, Awarding of Prizes
6:00Traditional Italian Dinner at nearby Ledo's for those staying around.
Then, Robb Protheroe, the inspiration of Plug-In Supply of Petaluma, CA, has confirmed that he will speakon Saturday night at 7:30 PM -- describing his efforts to convert more than 100 Toyota Prius to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and his thoughts on where our EV movement will be headed.See also his website www.PluginSupply.com for background reading.
Pass to word to your friends that this is going to be the best yet, and getting better.
Originally published: August 25, 2009 | Total Page Views: 2765
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jim stack:
this would be very interesting. Why aren't more areas doing V2G ?
3:00 PM U of Delaware V2G Discussion with eBox by Jon Lilley and Nat Pearre, after Wrap up of AutoX at Valley Mall in vacant storefront
04/Sep/2009
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Joseph Lado:
Jim,
Good question. The lesson that I got from the V2G talk was that the current deregulated energy market is a series of land mines that utility managers have to navigate ever second of the day. There job is highly stressful. V2G allows the utility energy manager to buy space on your grid connected EV and drop excess energy at a lower price in seconds and then buy it back from you in seconds, all to avoid having to pay a higher price in the power market place. There are two question that come to mind when I understand how this works. One is, how in the hell did energy markets get so fragmented that the price changes literally from second to second? And, secondly, what are they going to do with all the technology if V2G results in eliminating the volatility in the energy markets that exists now?
The last question is going to need some explanation around it. Right now, the idea of V2G would work because utility energy managers would use the batteries in EVs to store and then buy back power in small increments of time in order to avoid using peaking power sellers that right now charge a lot of money since they have to use that short period of time to pay for plants that have to be paid for all year. If V2G would be put in place the peak power plants would all close down in short order leaving only the utilities as the sole buyer and seller of electricity the V2G system. Since the incentive to move away from peak power plants will be gone as something to keep the price of the electricity purchased from V2G connected vehicles high, utilities can set the price of buy back very low.
Experience has already taught us that utility companies when deregulated to offer lower prices at night, start by offering lower prices at night, but quickly use the deregulation to charge what they used to charge during the day at night and charge much higher prices during the day. Simply, utilities are monopolies, so they don't function with standard market forces. They operate under the principles of monopoly fully explored by Adam Smith. For utilities to be truly deregulated all aspects of the utility operation, generation, transmission, distribution and connection have to be deregulated and that has never happened in modern deregulation.
Owners set up into a V2G system, must be given the ability to opt out immediately. The benefits of being connected by V2G must not require home owners to be constantly managing how they use energy. The typical home owner neither has the time or inclination to do so, so claiming that home owners will spend their valuable free time watching their computers for a spike or drop in price in order to run their appliances is non-sense. In the end energy consumers must be protected form being burned by utilities like what happened to California when Enron decided it no longer needed or wanted to follow reasonable restraint.
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Joseph Lado heads up the Alternative Energy - Alternative Fuel Club at the National Science Foundation, is a board member of the Electric Automobile Association, a member of Plug-In America, National Electric Drag Racing Association and Electric Vehicle Association of DC. Owns an electric vehicle. Writes, lectures, consults extensively on alternative energy.
