{"id":5697,"date":"2008-08-08T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explorebates.wordpress.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:29:20","slug":"electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/08\/08\/electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates faculty, staff test drive electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2008\/08\/electric-car-4089_0.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2008\/08\/electric-car-4089_0-400x274.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Electric Car\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite wet weather, a steady trickle of Bates faculty and staff arrived between Pettengill Hall and the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2008\/02\/13\/bates-opens\/\">new dining Commons<\/a> Aug. 7 to test drive two low-speed electric vehicles: a four-seater car and a small truck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several offices at the College, including carpentry and catering, are looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x166097.xml\">transport for campus use<\/a>,&#8221; said Daniel Nein, co-director of\u00a0Bates Facility Services. &#8220;Bates people tend to be very interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x169894.xml\">environmental sustainability<\/a>. We already use three electric <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Electric_Motorcars\">GEM cars<\/a> for Dining Services,\u00a0Information and Library Service\u00a0and Physical  Plant. This gives us a chance to look at another available electric  option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Electric cars do require plugging in to recharge. In Bates&#8217; case,  since December 2005\u00a0the College has\u00a0purchased its electricity supply  from <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/11\/22\/green-power\/\">renewable energy sources in Maine<\/a>, specifically biomass generating plants and small hydroelectric producers.<\/p>\n<p>These vehicles developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miles_Rubin\">Miles Electric Vehicles<\/a> top out at 25 mph with a range of 50 to 60 miles before needing an  overnight recharge. The cars are street-legal on nearly all public roads  posted at 35 mph or lower. Kal Rogers,\u00a0marketing director for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineev.com\/content\/homepage.aspx\">Maine Electric Vehicles<\/a> in Falmouth, says these low speed models, which cost about $18,000 each, are ideal for campus and limited street use.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers says that a new sedan that can top 75 mph is undergoing safety  tests this year for a planned introduction in 2009. A June 16, 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2008\/0616\/074.html\">Forbes<\/a> describes\u00a0hurdles that Miles Electric Vehicles and other electric-car  manufacturers face in creating highway-speed electric cars,\u00a0while\u00a0a June  13, 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,1814538,00.html\">Time<\/a> reports on GEM cars similar to those used at Bates, noting that &#8220;their  success provides a good window into the growth of the electric car  market.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite wet weather, a steady trickle of Bates faculty and staff arrived between Pettengill Hall and the new dining Commons Aug. 7 to test drive two low-speed electric vehicles: a four-seater car and a small truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[133,232,6,217,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-environment-sustainability","category-maine-world","category-science-technology","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions\/89267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}