ODO 8216 miles

A gem to think about from Jerry Brown's recent California State of the State address - a quote from Edward O. Wilson, father of biodiversity: "we are needlessly turning the gold we inherited from our forebears into straw, and for that we will be despised by our descendants." I feel like those of us that drive and support the growing EV community are at least trying to slow the process, maybe not spinning our gold into straw as fast as we have been.

One way to slow that process is to continue to build up the EV infrastructure. And where do we spend most of our waking hours? I spend them at work. So workplace charging seems like a natural place to concentrate our effort. As a strong start, the US DOE Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy has issued the Workplace Charging Challenge. Is your employer on the list? Yeah! UCLA is! Boo...UC Berkeley is not (again I'm surprised by the lack of EV support in the City of Berkeley). As you can see from all the orange dots, I think the geographic diversity is a good sign. There's almost one company in every state. How can we get that wide area just east of the Rockies involved? MT, WY, ND, SD, NE. Now there is a recently installed Tesla supercharger station in Lusk, Wyoming. You gotta start somewhere. Maybe what we really need an an electric pickup truck.