CO2 E DRIVE NYC: April 2011

Saturday, April 30, 2011

THE START IN THE MORNING AT SOLAR ONE BUILDING

Chris Paine - Director of "Revenge of the Electric Car" did the opening speech for the CO2 E - Drive along with Director for Earth Day New York Pamela Lippe (to the right) at the Solar One Building

Pamlela Lippe - Director of Earth Day - interviewed for FOX TV's Morning show

The CO2 E- Drive magnet signs gets attached to the vehicles, the one above is the red VOLT

The wonderful Electric DeLorean converted by Dave Delman

The Nissan LEAF - that one could also see massive amounts of AD's for all over the city

The super sexy Inizio from Li-ion Motors

The Lime Green Wave from Li-ion Motors

The Mini - E from Beautiful Earth

The Electric SMART car

The Electric LOMAX from Methacton High School in Norristown, Pensylvania

The Bio Fueled Novozymes Ford Focus

The Bio Fueled Ford Pick-up Truck from Vogelbilt Corp

The Cherry Red GM VOLT

And of course the TESLA! This one the discrete and stylish Dark Green version

Here, the Sky Blue version with Danish drivers!

And the Silver Surfer, The Green Apple and the Sky Blue all the way to the right

The artist behind the CO2 E - Drive, Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen rode the lovely Danish BioMega Bike

The participating vehicles getting ready to take off after they were installed with GPS units from US Fleet Tracking, that showed each vehicle on the Toshiba Jumbo screen on Time Square

Are you ready to be E Fluxed?

SEE THE REPLAY OF THE DRIVE HERE

Monday, April 25, 2011

Thursday, April 21, 2011

CO2 E DRIVE NYC - THE DAY BEFORE THE BIG DAY

Video shot by Shaky Jones on the 21st of April 2011 on the Triangle in front of the Flatiron Building on 23rd Street, 5th Avenue and Broadway

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

CO2 E - DRIVE NEW YORK


The magnet sign that goes on the cars in the CO2 E - Drive

Press Conference: 8:00am at Solar One (East 23rd and the East River)

CO2 E Drive: 9am - 10:45am

Green Vehicle Fashion Show in Times Square: 11am - 12pm

Green Vehicle public exhibition: 12pm -5pm

The CO2 E Drive will begin from the Solar One building on 23rd Street and the East River at approximately 9:00am following an 8:00 am press conference with guest speaker
Chris Paine, Director of Revenge of The Electric Car that has its world premiere at the Tribeca Films Festival 6:30pm at the SVI Theater on West 23rd Street.

From Solar One, the vehicles will embark on the CO2 E Drive route through midtown Manhattan.

Environmentally friendly vehicles (electric, hybrid and bio-fuel) will paint a huge, virtual “E” on the streets of New York using GPS technology. Progress of the vehicles in form of GPS symbols will be shown on screens in Times Square (the painting).

Following the drive, a select number of vehicles will arrive at Times Square (46th and Broadway) for a green vehicle runway presentation in collaboration with Mr. Green from 11am -12pm. The cars will remain in Times Square on display for the remainder of the afternoon.

Cars participating include: Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, Toyota Prius, eStar van, duraStar truck, Tesla Roadster and a Novozymes branded Biofuel car. Li-Ion Motors will also participate with two all electric sport cars, several privately owned cars, including an all-electric DeLorean and a Bio fueled pick-up truck.