EV Club Founder, Leo Cirino, Passes Away
Leo Cirino Passes Away at 91 It is with sadness that we announce that the founder of the EV Club, Leo Cirino, a resident of Westport, has passed away at age 91. A Vision for … Read more
Westport Electric Car Club
Leo Cirino Steps Down as Club President
Leadership Transition Club founder, Leo Cirino, has stepped down as club president. Leo was widely recognized for his tireless and effective advocacy for clean transportation and received multiple awards from area organizations. Leo will be … Read more
EV Ownership Grows 35% in CT
35% Increase in 2017 The number of plug-in vehicles registered in CT has grown by 35.1% in a comparison of 2 data points one year apart. The Westport Electric Car Club received an updated vehicle … Read more
The EV Outlook: Contradictory or Inexorable
The New Peak Oil There was a documentary film called “Collapse,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 about a self-styled investigative journalist named Michael Ruppert who claims to have predicted the 2008 financial … Read more
2017: The Vehicles
EV Landscape This is the first of several posts that will discuss the EV landscape from the perspective of the directions in vehicle production, the Federal tax credit, the latest with respect to efforts on … Read more
Interactive Dashboard, Part Deux: Westport Has Highest Incidence of EVs of all CT Cities
Interactive EV Dashboard We have added a page to the CT EV interactive dashboard so that it now shows plug-in vehicles per capita by city and plug-ins as a percentage of all vehicles registered in … Read more
The State of the State of EVs in Connecticut
EV Ownership Deep Dive in CT Sales of EVs nationally have continued on an upward slope in 2017, up 44% year over year for the first 5 months relative to 2016. And the availability of … Read more
2017 EV Road Rally
2017 EV Rally Our 2017 EV Road Rally was enjoyed by all participants this past Sunday, May 7. The rally covered roughly 30 miles, beginning and ending at the Westport/Saugatuck Metro-North Train Depot with a … Read more
Tri-Town Teachers Federal Credit Union Welcomes Members From Westport Electric Car Club
Tri-Town Teachers Credit Union Members of the Westport Electric Car Club are now eligible to join the Tri-Town Teachers Federal Credit Union and receive the full array of banking and insurance services offered at rates … Read more
Preview of Volt 2.0 at Karl Chevrolet
EV Club Sees Pre-Production Prototype of Gen 2 Volt at Karl Chevrolet The showroom at Karl Chevrolet (New Canaan, CT), featured, for a short period of time, the Gen 1 and Gen 2 Volt side … Read more