Written on May, 13, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
Your Safety Is Our Priority. In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Access has taken several proactive measures to help safeguard your health while taking Access, including No Share-Rides and Enhanced Vehicle Cleaning.
To ensure the health and safety of our employees and riders, we are asking that you DO NOT schedule a trip using Access if you have been confirmed to have COVID-19, or are going to a facility to be tested for COVID-19. Riders are encouraged to follow the Los Angeles County Safer at Home Emergency Order. If you must travel, please follow these guidelines: • Cover your face while riding Access • Do not use Access if you are sick • Cover your coughs and sneezes • Wash hands frequently with soap and warm water, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Starting Monday, May 4th, Access will begin offering limited same day service. For further information on this and other COVID-19 programs, please click on the Coronavirus – COVID-19 Updates link in the Rider Alert Section below.
Your Safety Is Our Priority. In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Access has taken several proactive measures to help safeguard your health while taking Access, including No Share-Rides and Enhanced Vehicle Cleaning.
To ensure the health and safety of our employees and riders, we are asking that you DO NOT schedule a trip using Access if you have been confirmed to have COVID-19, or are going to a facility to be tested for COVID-19. Riders are encouraged to follow the Los Angeles County Safer at Home Emergency Order. If you must travel, please follow these guidelines: • Cover your face while riding Access • Do not use Access if you are sick • Cover your coughs and sneezes • Wash hands frequently with soap and warm water, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Starting Monday, May 4th, Access will begin offering limited same day service. For further information on this and other COVID-19 programs, please click on the Coronavirus – COVID-19 Updates link in the Rider Alert Section below.
Welcome to Access Services, the consolidated Transportation Services Agency (CTSA) for Los Angeles County.
Access Services is responsible for the administration of Access, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) mandated paratransit transportation program for Los Angeles County and is committed to improving the mobility on public transit of persons with disabilities.
Written on May, 10, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
WP Car Manager’s goal is to enable anyone to manage and list their cars by using WordPress. With our plugin anyone can add, manage and list cars without any technical knowledge!
Intuitive Admin
The admin UI lists your cars in an organized fashion. You can easily control important car data like Make and Model, add features like ABS or Navigation and add complete photo galleries with a single upload!
There is also a Make & Models page and a Features page so you can control this data separately as well.
Filterable Car Listings
List all your cars on your WordPress website by simply adding our shortcode to your page. The shortcode will output a simple yet powerful car listings that is filterable without refreshing the page (AJAX). Your visitors will find the car they’re looking for in no time!
Detailed Car Pages
Our detailed car pages will display the car details beautifully. The car detail pages include a summary for the most important data, an overlay image gallery, automatically generated tables for all your car data, automatically created lists for the car’s features and configurable call to action buttons.
Finally, the plugin is easily extendable by advanced usage of WordPress hooks and filters combined with template files.
Written on May, 04, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
Join the Bluff City Training Team
The Bluff City Training Team (formerly known as the BCB100 Training Team) is entering its 10th Year and we have all kinds of exciting news for this training season.
First, we will be partnering with BPC to provide an even greater level of coaching than in the past. We look forward to working with Bryant and Dale and all the folks at BPC.
Second, as you can tell with our name change, we will be able to help any cyclist this year planning on a long distance ride through Fall, 2020. Of course if you join the Training Team we will have an extra special Ride Fee for our own BCB 100 Ride happening on October 10, 2020 – only $20.
We will also have special pricing for the West Fight On Ride and the Wolf River Conservancy’s Cycle The Greenway. Only available during Training Team registration!
And we will be able to help train for all of the area’s other long rides including the inaugural St. Jude Ironman 70.3!
We encourage all cyclists of all abilities to train with us, from the fast and the experienced to those just wanting to join a group ride for the first time.
This will be a very special year and the team will be limited, so you need to join when registration opens on March 1 and will close on April 30, 2020.
Not a member of the Memphis Hightailers? The cost for the team is $225, which includes a one-year Memphis Hightailers membership.
Written on Apr, 26, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
The award winning VINTAGE VEHICLE SHOW brings you the best television coverage of all aspects of the classic, stock, custom and hot rod car hobby. Over the past 20 years the VINTAGE VEHICLE SHOW has taken viewers to America’s best car shows, museums, private collections and restoration facilities.
The show’s host Lance Lambert and producer & director Tim Stansbury have taken you along to see everything from the world’s most valuable Ferrari to riding in a restored World War II tank. Automotive celebrities such as Jay Leno, Chip Foose, Boyd Coddington, George Barris, Gene Winfield, Troy Trepanier, Vic Edelbrock, Blackie Gejeian, Pete Chapouris, Joe Bailon, Randy Clark, Troy Ladd, Jimmy White, John D’Agostino, Mike Lavalle, Rick Dore, Ed Roth Jr. and Ed Justice have shared their design and construction secrets and taken you along on tours of their collections and shops.
Everything from house painted and chicken wired Cuban cars to multi-million dollar Classics have driven across your TV and computer screens on the VINTAGE VEHICLE SHOW.
The VINTAGE VEHICLE SHOW show is broadcast on 100 stations across the US and on TV networks in 27 foreign markets. Consult your local listings for times and stations. It can also be seen on streaming video by visiting www.vimeo.com or www.youtube.com
Written on Apr, 25, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
Bicycle Resources And Posts
Life Is Better When You Ride Bicycles!
Blog Posts Listing My blog posts always try to impart something interesting or humorous. Look at my Mishigas Posts (Crazy things we sometimes do). The posts sometimes talk about accidents, spills and other issues that remind us we not infallible.
Ecards – Free, No Registration Necessary Free bicycle themed eCards for birthdays, friendship, thank you and dozens of free form options like achieving cycling goals, sympathy for a friend in a bicycle accident, quiet moments and cards where you construct the words and thoughts.
Etiquette You are not really riding you road bike. You are driving it, and there are rules of safety to follow, alone or in a group. Riding off road, you may not have cars or traffic deal with, but there are still ways to ride safely and courteously. Look up the specific rules of the road for your state.
Publications For Cyclists All You Can Read
Resource Sites Just as this site has multiple links to other sites that provide extensive information on cycling, some my links will connect you to sites with an even more extensive list of options.
Rides, GPS & Cuesheets When we want guided ride, the world now goes gps, on a Garmin or similar device or our cell phone. The linked sites here provide all that. Some also print cue sheets for those of you who remember.
Tech Sites There are many issues with your bicycle that you can fix yourself, even if you are not an expert. Some are pretty simple. My list certainly is not complete, but I did spend time to present a solid representation.
Written on Apr, 24, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
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The Oregon Electric Vehicle Association (OEVA) is a non-profit association of electric vehicle enthusiasts. We promote electric vehicle education and encourage their safe construction and use.
We are part of the Multnomah Hot Rod Council and a chapter of the Electric Auto Association.
Our Meetings
Our meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month.
For 2019 we are holding the Mar, Apr, Jun, Sep, and Dec meetings at the World Trade Center, with the meeting location and catering generously provided by Forth. Member EVs can park in the covered outdoor plaza off of SW 1st Ave north of SW Salmon St., Portland, OR. The meeting will be held in one of the meeting rooms.
All other months our meetings will be held at the Multnomah Arts Center, Room 30, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR. Closest parking is in the lot off 31st street. Enter the east hall (to the right). Room 30 is the first room on your right.
6:30pm – 7pm, Board Meeting
7pm – 7:30, Socializing, Car show and tell
7:30 – 9pm, Meeting
No charging is available at the Multnomah Arts Center.
Membership
OEVA membership is $20 per year. Additional donations are also accepted. To subscribe or renew, send a check payable to OEVA along with the Membership form.
E-Mail Announcements List
Sign up! Our meeting reminders and newsletter announcements are
delivered on the OEVA e-mail list. Subscription is free.
Sign up for the OEVA list.
A online archive
of this e-mail list also exists.
You may want to check out the fully searchable international
EV Discussion List (EVDL) too.
Oregon High Schools
Gladstone Electric Vehicle Organization S10 Conversion Project
Oregon Electric Vehicles
Oregonian, 1915: Driving Electric on the Columbia Highway
Driving Oregon’s Future – a video from Portland General Electric.
EV Myths
THINK’s Ten Myths About Electric Cars
Powerpoint and PDF Presentations
Gary Graunke wrote an Op-Ed for Ruralite magazine (PDF) dated Feb 2017.
OEVA member Gary Graunke gave an Electric Vehicle Update
(PPT)
(PDF) presentation at
SolWest on July 28, 2013 (An Excel spreadsheet compares the ownership cost of a Leaf vs a Versa).
Jana Gastellum of Oregon Environmental Council gave a presentation on the Oregon Clean Fuels Program on January 10, 2013.
Rick Durst of PGE gave an update on EV Infrastructure in Oregon from January 12, 2012.
THINK presentation from March 11, 2010.
EV Update presentation from March 12, 2010.
Interview of OEVA members
OEVA member Gary Graunke is interviewed on King 5 television in Seattle about Oregons Gas Tax replacement plans. Watch online here or download the MP4 file (43Mb). Skip to 3:43
Written on Apr, 21, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
We intend this site to focus on the Good
News about Bicycling as a means of transportation and recreation in everyday life.
Edlin’s Crank An exquisite study by our favorite artist, Taliah
Lempert (Used with
permission)
Like Edlin, who’s crank appears above, you may not have a racing bike
(regardless of the pretentious logo), but if you have a bike, any bike,
you can join the human race instead of the rat race. A quiet evening
ride or a trip to the store does not require a $2000 bike.
Many
bicycle web sites are “event” oriented. Lots are interested on races or racers.
Most are seasonally oriented, and a few are advocacy oriented. We are not disinterested in
these things. We are simply more interested in the promotion of cycling as a
“normal” means of transportation for every day travel needs as well as
recreation and healthy exercise.
We also want to counter all the fear mongering, intentional and
unintentional, that happens when bicycling is discussed.
Sometimes cycling enthusiasts are their own worst enemy.
It starts when fairly
competent cyclists start lobbying for bike paths and bike lanes at local public
meetings. It ends with school districts banning bicycles as a means of
transportation, or with local road closures because elected officials are afraid of
Written on Apr, 20, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
In Los Angeles, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a go-to destination for us staffers at Automobile, and there isn’t one of us who hasn’t wiled away an afternoon there immersed in all it has to offer. While the museum is understandably closed until at least the end of March, it hasn’t taken long for it to begin a schedule of live streaming events and other educational activities from its avant garde headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, all offered for free on its website.
If you have bored kids at home, you’re in luck. The events are mostly geared toward children, though no doubt parents will enjoy following along as well. So far, the schedule is as follows (all times are PST):
Tuesday, March 17, 10 a.m. – Force and Motion
Cars are about motion. While it may seem simple to press a pedal and move forward, there are dozens of forces interacting that must be balanced to produce motion. From Newton’s laws to different types of energy, students will learn the simple physics behind the automobile.
Tuesday, March 17, 1 p.m. – Balloon Cars
For a car to move, a force must be applied. Students will explore propulsion and Newton’s Third Law of Motion by making their own balloon cars.
Wednesday, March 18, 10 a.m. – History of the Car
Cars have been in existence for more than a century (or longer, depending on when you start counting). Join the Petersen as it explores the evolution of the automobile.
Wednesday, March 18, 1 p.m. – License Plates
License plates identify vehicles as properly registered with the state, but may also serve as a canvas. Students will create their own license plates and decorate them to show off something about their home state.
Thursday, March 19, 10 a.m. – Storytime Featuring “Go, Dog, Go!” By P.D. Eastman
Students will read the beloved tale about dogs and their cars.
Thursday, March 19, 1 p.m. – Animal Cars
Students will make a car of their favorite animal with materials found around the house.
Friday, March 20, 10 a.m. – Design Process
Utilizing the car, students will explore how things go from idea to finished product.
Friday, March 20, 1 p.m. – Car Models
A critical part of automotive design is creating a model. Students will create car models to show how the modeling process can help to explore design choices.
Future lessons will cover propulsion, aerodynamics, racing and a host of other topics.
More Videos
Also, head to the Petersen Automotive Museum’s Online Education area. There, kids can download and
Written on Apr, 14, 2020by iwano@_84 | No Comments
Published by IEEE Spectrum
by Mark Anderson
Electric vehicles have recently boasted impressive growth rates, more than doubling in market penetration every two years between 2014 and 2018. And batteries play a key role in EV performance and price. That’s why some companies are looking to new chemistries and battery technologies to sustain EV growth rates throughout the early 2020s.
To read the complete article, click here.
Published by IEEE – The Institute
by Kathy Pretz
Just about every car manufacturer—including BMW, Ford, General Motors, Jaguar, and Toyota—has announced plans to build more electric vehicles and phase out cars with internal combustion engines. As of early 2018, automakers in Germany had invested US $52 billion in EVs, Chinese car companies $21 billion, and those in the United States at least $19 billion, according to Reuters. BloombergNEF’s 2019 Electric Vehicle Outlook predicts that EVs will make up 57 percent of passenger car sales globally by 2040.
To read the complete article, click here.
Published by IEEE – The Institute
by Kathy Pretz
The aerospace industry is under intense pressure to reduce its impact on the environment. Between 2021 and 2035, the industry will have to offset a total of 2.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, an emissions mitigation approach for the industry.
To read the complete article click here.
Published by IEEE – The Institute
by Kathy Pretz
As more and more intelligent cars and autonomous vehicles hit the road, some engineers are thinking about what can be done to smarten up the streets on which they travel.
Doing so could allow smart cars and trucks to exchange information with other vehicles, traffic management centers, and private companies about traffic congestion, accidents, and weather conditions. The key to making it happen is an Internet of Things system that includes sensors embedded in the roadway and on traffic lights.
Electric vehicles have recently boasted impressive growth rates, more than doubling in market penetration every two years between 2014 and 2018. And batteries play a key role in EV performance and price. That’s why some companies are looking to new chemistries and battery technologies to sustain EV growth rates throughout the early 2020s.
Just about every car manufacturer—including BMW, Ford, General Motors, Jaguar, and Toyota—has announced plans to build more electric vehicles and phase out cars with internal combustion engines. As of early 2018, automakers in Germany had invested US $52 billion in EVs, Chinese car companies $21 billion, and those in the United States at least $19 billion, according to Reuters. BloombergNEF’s 2019 Electric Vehicle Outlook predicts that EVs will make up 57 percent of passenger car sales globally by 2040.
The aerospace industry is under intense pressure to reduce its impact on the environment. Between 2021 and 2035, the industry will have to offset a total of 2.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, an emissions mitigation approach for the industry.
As more and more intelligent cars and autonomous vehicles hit the road, some engineers are thinking about what can be done to smarten up the streets on which they travel.