Electric vehicles are a growing option in North Carolina, and for this month’s Carolina Curious, one new owner asks how to charge them in a way that’s most beneficial to the environment. To learn more about the EV landscape, WFDD’s Paul Garber began by taking a spin with a member of a long-running local electric vehicle club.
The Triad Electric Vehicle Association – or TEVA – started in Burlington in 2005. Bill Bucklen, a retired engineer joined in 2008, when he bought his first electric vehicle, a Tesla Roadster.
Although he has since switched to a sedan, he still appreciates the power that the Tesla’s engine can produce. This is no golf-cart electric vehicle, as he shows while we take a drive on a Greensboro highway.
"Are you ready?" he asks.
"Ready," I reply.
"Head on the headrest…"
And then, in what seem