Mar 05

AustinEV Hosts the Mobility Ecosysytem Zone at Earthday ATX

Earth Day ATX, Austin’s annual citywide Earth Day event, will return to the Huston-Tillotson University campus on Saturday, April 12th from 12 to 6 pm.

This family-friendly event is free and open to the public. 

The festival will include hands-on activities for all ages, food, music, guided movement activities, conversations and exhibits. 

AustinEV is proud to host the Mobility Ecosystem at Earth Day ATX this year as a microcosm of Austin’s transportation system that you can explore yourself. 

We’ll have several examples of the EVs that are on the market today.  We’ll have AustinEV members on hand to answer questions and share about what it’s like to drive electric! 

(you can sign up to offer to display your vehicle when you add yourself as a volunteer!)

Learn about your options for rebates for home EV charging equipment and affordable public charging options as well as the options you have to earn tax credits on your 2025 EV purchases.

You’re encouraged to turn your thoughts into action, as we work towards supporting our Mobility Ecosystem in Austin.

Sign up as a volunteer for the event or offer to show your vehicle

More about EarthdayATX – https://earthdayaustin.com/

Mar 05

Join the AustinEV Road Rally Scavenger Hunt


Drive Electric Earth Month is in April.

To celebrate it, we are creating an electric vehicle (EV) road rally on Sunday, April 6th at 9:30 AM. The goal is to have some fun, even if you don’t have an electric vehicle. We will drive our EVs from Austin to another town. Along the way, Driver-Navigator teams will look out their windows to answer questions like:

“What color is the house on the corner of 5th and Main?”

“What animal is on the mailbox at 123 Main Street?”

The route (approximately 50 miles round trip) will take us to a restaurant where we can get lunch, review answers, and maybe do an EV trivia contest. AustinEV even offered to get some prizes.

Want to participate but don’t have an EV? We can match you onto a team.

Got an EV but not a Navigator? We can match someone without an EV onto your team.

Please fill out this brief survey to sign up!

Nov 07

Join AustinEV at the 2024 Electrify Expo

AustinEV will have a booth at the Electrify Expo at COTA again this year Nov 9-10.  Stop by and say hi!

The Expo will be moving to Dallas next year, so grab your opportunity to check out a variety of EVs at COTA!

If you want to grab a day pass at a discount, Austin Energy has a code on their EV buyers guide site:

https://ev.austinenergy.com

Best,

/Aaron

Apr 11

Join AustinEV at Earthday ATX!

*** this event has been rescheduled due to significant chances of severe weather in the forecasts for its original date – please join us on 4/27! ***

After 2 years, Earth Day ATX, Austin’s annual citywide event, will return to the Huston-Tillotson University campus on Saturday, April 27th from 12 to 5 pm. This family-friendly event is produced by Earth Day Austin, a 501c3, and is free and open to the public. 

The festival will include hands-on activities for all ages, food, music, guided movement activities, conversations and exhibits. 


(you can sign up to offer to display your vehicle when you add yourself as an attendee!)
[RSVP HERE!]

The theme of this year’s event will be “Make It Personal” and will include such features as:

  • a kids zone
  • hands on activities on a variety of eco-topics
  • planetarium
  • exhibits from businesses and nonprofits
  • local food
  • an electric school bus and a variety of electric vehicles
  • an instrument petting zoo
  • a gratitude wall
  • community-centered marketplaces 
  • live radio broadcasting from the festival
  • Native American fry bread
  • panels
  • Spanish, ASL and SLM interpretation
  • puppets
  • much, much more…

AustinEV is proud to host the Mobility Ecosystem at Earth Day ATX this year as a microcosm of Austin’s transportation system that you can explore yourself. 

We’ll have an electric school bus on display and several examples of the EVs that are on the market today.  We’ll have AustinEV members on hand to answer questions and share about what it’s like to drive electric! 

(you can sign up to offer to display your vehicle when you add yourself as an attendee!)
[RSVP HERE!]

Learn about your options for rebates for home EV charging equipment and affordable public charging options as well as the options you have to earn tax credits on your 2024 EV purchases.

You’re encouraged to turn your thoughts into action, as we work towards supporting our Mobility Ecosystem in Austin.

Nov 08

Join AustinEV at the Electrify Expo this weekend!

If you are in the Austin, TX area this weekend, you have a unique opportunity to test dozens if not hundreds of models of electric vehicles (cars, trucks, scooters, e-bikes and more) all in one spot this weekend out at the Circuit of the Americas.

AustinEV will have a booth at the Electrify Expo and the general admission days are Saturday, Nov 11 and Sunday, Nov 12 from 10am to 5pm.

To register for the event with a 25% discount use the discount code:

EEATX25PS

on their registration page here:

https://www.electrifyexpo.com/austin

OR

You can join Ford for a preview coffee event on Friday morning.

Ford will be hosting a Cars & Coffee event from 7 – 9 am CST on Friday, November 10th and they’re inviting you.  You can enjoy coffee, meet with Ford Representatives, receive a pass to attend Electrify Expo on the Public Days and get a chance to look at the Ford F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E.

The link to register for this coffee event is: https://ford.to/3QDdr9z

AustinEV is proud to be the Austin Area chapter of the Electric Vehicle Association. You can support our chapter AND the national EV advocacy efforts of the EVA by joining the organization and selecting AustinEV as your local chapter. Starting at $55/yr, your contribution combined with memberships from across the country is the primary support for this independent EV advocacy organization.

Join the EVA Today!

Sep 11

Electric Vehicle Showcase – September 30, 2023 (Canceled)

May 02

In support of Barks for Beers

We’re happy to share Barks for Beers, a fundraiser for Divine Canines!

Please join us in supporting the organization.

It is a perfect opportunity to get out for some day trips in our EVs, visit our local breweries and support an organization that coordinates more than 140 active dog-handler teams who visit scores of partner sites and special events throughout Central Texas with free therapy dog services.

From now to May 31, you can visit 30 amazing craft breweries. Purchase the 2023 Divine Canines pint glass and Pawsport for $30+ tax at any participating brewery. The Pawsport entitles you to one pour at each brewery listed on their site. We ask you to please drink responsibly and tip the taproom staff! Our friends who pour the beers are a key part of the event, and we want to keep them happy!

Cara and I will be out visiting the breweries over the next few weeks. One of our dogs is a retired DC but he still loves his brew pub patios! If you see me with my AustinEV hat, stop and say ‘Hi’ or join us. I’ll have some AustinEV and EVA swag to share.

Full details on Barks for Beers: https://divinecanines.org/barksforbeers/

Follow Divine Canines on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/divinecaninestexas or Instagram https://instagram.com/barksforbeers to find out how to register your Pawsport for special prizes, including a fun Instagram Bingo contest. If you tag AustinEV as well, we’ll choose a few for some AustinEV prizes!

Thanks, have fun and I hope to see you!

Aaron Choate

Mar 09

SXSW | Revving up the Transition to Electric Vehicles

Elaine Borseth, EVA President, will participate in a discussion about how fast the automotive industry is moving to meet consumer demand for EVs. Joining her in this panel discussion is Chay English, Policy Strategist/Managing Counsel at Ford Motor Co. and Katherine Garcia, Dir. of the Clean Transportation for All Campaign at Sierra Club. The Fast Company Grill discussion takes place on Monday, March 13th at 2 pm Central. Make sure to register for the event or follow the discussion on social media: Twitter, TikTok, IG, LinkedIn. #FCGrill and @FastCompany.

Mar 09

AustinEV welcomes Elaine Borseth

Elaine Borseth, the Electric Vehicle Association’s President, and EV road trip enthusiast will be in town to participate in SXSW | Revving up the Transition to Electric Vehicles and we’re having a meetup to greet her to Austin on Sunday the 12th at 6pm.

We have a table for 20 reserved so we’ll be limiting RSVPs for this meetup.

If you would like to join us, please RSVP here:

[RSVP ON THE MEETUP EVENT]

Jan 12

AustinEV and EV Live

GM is starting an effort to highlight its EV Live EV education initiative to the public and to its dealers and a few of us from AustinEV were able to attend their inaugural presentation. This online platform, which was launched in the summer of 2022, lets you connect over the internet to a live specialist in a real studio in Michigan to learn more about the EV ecosystem and EV 101 topics in general. The studio has many examples of the vehicles and supporting equipment customers may be curious about such as the range of charging stations and a display of the battery pack that shows how it is incorporated into the structure of their vehicle. The space also allows GM can do remote training for dealers or specialized presentations to groups interested in implementing their emerging e-crate performance EV components.

If you want to explore, you can access the site here:

https://evlive.gm.com/

KVUE did a Boomtown segment on the event which you can access here:

EV Live answers questions consumers have about electric vehicles