MNEVO meeting: Public Charging in MN 2024

[Jukka Kukkonen]

There have been a lot of stories on challenges with public charging and, in many cases, rightfully so. First generation hardware reliability has not been good and spare part availability is still poor, but things are changing fast. This month, we have expert speakers sharing their experience, frustrations, and view of the future for public charging. Many of our members may not be aware that Minnesota based ZEF Energy www.ZEFEnergy.com has its roots in our group and most of their staff are our fellow MN EV Owners. They have been selling, installing, and maintaining EV charging solutions since 2014, and are one of the most experienced in the US in this business. They don’t have billion-dollar budgets, like many of the bigger networks do, but have been very mission-driven, working to advance EV adoption in Minnesota by building the first public charging stations here. Being a pioneer is not easy – early hardware has caused a lot of headaches, they have changed dozens of cords because of vandalism and, since they don’t own most of the hardware, it is sometimes hard to get things fixed since the decisions are not in their hands. Fortunately, we have a light at the end of the tunnel, and starting last year ZEF has been able to replace or build new sites using new, reliable hardware, and this year promises even more progress. Join us to hear the good, bad, and ugly stories from the past and what is happening in 2024 and onwards. This is a virtual Zoom meeting so make sure to register using the link below.

Virtual MN EV Owners meeting through Zoom, Wednesday, 2/21, 6:00-8:30PM
Agenda:
6:00-6:30 Virtual Social hour. Introductions and sharing experiences.
6:30-6:40 Opening.
6:40-7:10 DC Fast Charging network developments in Minnesota and in the US. Jukka Kukkonen
7:10-8:10 Minnesota experience and developments, ZEF Energy team.
8:10-8:30 Updates and upcoming events

Meeting registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckfu-ppj4pG904hrsXkRsNQu06negiust_

Jukka

Jukka Kukkonen
MN EV Owners coordinator
651 428 3155, ju...@shift2electric.com 
www.MNEVOwners.org , www.facebook.com/groups/mnevowners/
MNEVO is a chapter of EAA www.ElectricAuto.org 

[Jukka Kukkonen]

Just a reminder to register for our meeting next week. I had to upgrade our Zoom service last week because we had already hit the limit of 100 registrations and some of our members were not able to join.
Now we can handle up to 500 so we should be good. Keep the registrations coming. 😊

Thanks,

Jukka

[Jukka Kukkonen]

Friendly reminder. Just a couple of hours to our meeting. Make sure to register using the Zoom link. We have over 170 registrations so far.

See you soon,

Jukka