Event: REV!2008 (Ride Electric Vehicles) Annual Show
Who: Vancouver EVA (Vancouver, Canada), a chapter of the EAA
When: Saturday June 7th, 2008
Where: Burnaby Sports field parking lot adjacent to Sprott and Sperling Streets in Burnaby, B.C.
(Geo corrdinates N49.2515, W122.964)
Attendance: 500-1000 people, TV media coverage
Invited: The general public and all EV owners, especially those from the Pacific Northwest
Cost: FREE! - one of the few fun things to do that is still FREE!
Features:
- VEVA's 1912 Detroit Electric (one of the longest-lived production EVs)
- Regular cars converted to freeway-capable EVs
- Neighbourhood EVs (city runabouts)
- Electric scooters, bicycles and recumbents
- Furniture (electric wheeled living room pieces!)
- Karts and other creations
- Free rides in all of the above types of vehicles
- Your questions answered about converting your vehicle to electric
- Free ample charging for all participating EVs
- Free ample parking
- Restrooms and Food
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All kinds of electric drive vehicles will be on display and high power charging
at 120/240v will be available.
Host family accommodations should be available for those coming from out-of-town.
Geo coordinates are N49.2515, W122.964
How to get there:
- From Highway 1 Going East:
- Take exit 32 for Sprott St about 4 km into Burnaby
- Turn left at Sprott St
- Drive 0.6 kms, going one block past Kensington
- From Highway 1 Going West:
- Take exit 33 and merge onto Kensington Ave
- Drive 1.0 km
- Turn right and go 1 block to Sperling
- From BCIT
- Take Canada Way east
- Drive 0.5 km past the Forest Lawn Cemetery signs and keep straight onto Sprott. If you go by Burnaby Municipal Hall, you have gone too 500 metres far.
- Drive 1.5 km and go one block past Kensington
- From Lougheed Hwy
- Turn onto Kensington 0.5 km west of the Sperling Street Skytrain station
- Drive 1.0 km south on Kensington
- Turn left and go 1 block to Sperling
- From New Westminster
- Go west on Canada Way, and turn onto Kensington just past Sperling.
If you pass Burnaby Municipal Hall on the left you have gone 400 metres too far.
- Drive 0.8 km north on Kensington
- Right at Sprott and go one block to Sperling
- By Skytrain
- Walk west of the Sperling Street Skytrain station 500 metres to Kensington
- Walk 1.0 km south on Kensington to Sprott
- Turn left and go 1 block to Sperling
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