Meeting between Sarthak Prasad, Morgan White, and Robert O'Daniell
Robert O'Daniell met with Morgan and me on Friday, May 13, 2022. We talked about the following topics:
- The University's upcoming task force for EVs. There will be two task forces -
- On-campus
- Community
- Reserve List for new EVs - backlog of about 18 months. Ford is not putting more people on this list now.
- How much EVs/Hybrids save over time
- With the Tax credits and saving on fuel, the cost is very comparable and sometimes cheaper than gasoline car
- Maintenance cost of EVs are very low
- EV Town initiative at Bloomington/Normal area
- QwikTrip chargers
- None currently in Champaign
- We talked about possibly adding Solar Arc at Lincoln & Florida parking lot
- I will look at the product and possibly ask SSC for funding in the future
- We also talked about the people Robert has reached out to so far
- EV-Go
- Electrify America
- Where to place a Fast Charger in Champaign-Urbana?
- I will connect Robert with Gabe Lewis at CCRPC.
Robert also provided some documents that were updated from last meeting with me (Introductory meeting with Robert O'Daniell)