Electric Vehicle Charging Station Ribbon Cutting - Lake Geneva - Tues. April 20th

[Benjamin Nelson]

Dear Friends of clean transportation,

This coming Tuesday, the 20th of April, the Grand Geneva Resort will have a ribbon-cutting of a brand-new electric vehicle charging station. The event will help promote Travel Green Wisconsin, eco-tourism, and clean transportation.

Featured at the event will be a Tesla Roadster - an absolutely AMAZING, high-end electric car, as well as my home converted Electric Geo Metro.

Everyone is welcome to come out to the ribbon cutting. If you have an electric vehicle (car, NEV, Plug-in hybrid, electric cycle, etc) you could make it out with, that would be even better!

Please forward this to any other ecology, sustainability, or technology that you think would be interested!

Thanks,

See you there!

-Ben Nelson

YOU’RE INVITED

TO A GREEN RIBBON CUTTING!

GRAND GENEVA RESORT & SPA CELEBRATES

EARTH WEEK BY BECOMING THE FIRST HOTEL IN THE MIDWEST 

TO OFFER NETWORKED ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING

TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010

WHO:  Grand Geneva Resort & Spa

WHAT: Unveiling of the Grand Geneva’s FREE Electric Car Charging Station

The Grand Geneva Resort and Spa, a Travel Green Wisconsin-certified property, is proud to unveil its newest environmentally friendly amenity, just in time for Earth Day. The resort recently partnered with California-based Coulomb Technologies to install a ChargePoint networked electric car charging station on the premises. Indicative of the resort’s commitment to minimizing its environmental impact, Grand Geneva is the first hotel in the Midwest to offer this amenity. Furthermore, the resort is offering the service to both guests and the general public free of charge!

For the ribbon-cutting event, Grand Geneva has partnered with Tesla Motors, the world’s only automaker selling highway-capable electric vehicles and whose cars equally emphasize design, performance, and efficiency. Tesla will feature its $130,000 Roadster convertible model during the ribbon-cutting, and along with a representative of Coulomb Technologies, will demonstrate the ease of charging the vehicle using the resort’s station. A representative of Travel Green Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Department of Tourism will offer remarks about this step forward in green hospitality.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 20, 2010

11 a.m. (Press check-in will begin at 10:30 a.m.)

WHERE: Grand Geneva Resort & Spa

7036 Grand Geneva Way
Lake Geneva, WI 53147

 

CONTACT: Wagstaff Worldwide Public Relations

Emilie Zanger

(312) 943-6900 – office / (847) 772-9784 – mobile

emi...@wagstaffworldwide.com

INTERVIEWS/PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES

• Representatives from Grand Geneva, Tesla Motors and Travel Green Wisconsin will be on hand for interviews and photo opportunities.

• Capture the “gas station of the future” in use, as the $130,000 Tesla Roadster convertible is charged at the Grand Geneva’s ChargePoint networked charging station.

• Capture video footage of the Grand Geneva Resort & Spa, a Travel Green Wisconsin-certified property.