palmermd
Well-known member
I am organizing a meeting in Sacramento at the the California Automobile Museum (formerly the Towe Auto Museum). This is more of an informal gathering of members from this group as there will be no formal meeting just a place to meet and chat with group members
When: Saturday March 2nd at 10am - whenever we have had enough.
Where: California Automobile Museum
2200 Front Street Sacramento, CA 95818-1106 Voice (916) 442-6802
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There is not any charging infrastructure on site, except they could run an extension cord to somebody in an emergency. For those who are traveling from out of town and would like to charge during their time inside the museum, we can arrange to give you a ride to the museum from a local garage with charging stations. I suggest that we all meet at 10am in the museum parking lot for a group photo of all the cars, and then we drive all those that need charging to the garage and then they can get a ride back to the museum by someone like myself who will not need to charge. It should be easy to organize in the parking lot once we are all there. Parking in these lots is $1.50/30 min with a $5 maximum charge on the weekend.
There are two garages that each have 6 J1772 EVSE’s. Capitol Garage at 10th and L Street, and City Hall Garage at 10th and I Street. Both of these are close to some eateries for after the museum tour.
After the museum tour we could bring the folks who parked in the garage back to their cars or we could meet for some food afterward on K Street. For now, I’ll suggest Pyramid Breweries
1029 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 498-9800
If there are other suggestions, perhaps we can change this. This location is 1-2 blocks from each of the suggested parking lots.
The museum has a large collection of vehicles from the teens through the 40’s as their core displays. Currently there is a nice display of cars from 1968 and also some microcars as their focus exhibits. But, why I suggested we meet here is because they also have a small collection of electric vehicles. One 1913 electric, one GM EV1, 2001 Nissan Hypermini, 2002 Nissan Altra, Nissan fuel cell Xterra, and a few others. The museum has a docent who will be on hand to give some details about the electric cars they have. If there is enough interest from the group in the other cars, we can arrange to have docents give tours of the rest of the collection as well. They really do have a fascinating collection of cars.
Because we are coming as a group, they have offered us a $2 discount on the admission. Admission will be $6 instead of the regular $8.
Here is the loose schedule (i’m sure things will slide a bit) 10:00am - meet in parking lot and arrange group photo of our cars.
10:30am - photos
10:40-11:00 - take those who need to charge to the parking garage
11:00-1:00 - museum tours
1:00 - head to pyramid for after party. This may start earlier since we may not take that long to tour the museum. Probably some folks will head over to lunch closer to 12 noon.
Please note if you are planning to attend and I’ll keep a log here of those planning to come so we can give an approximate head count to the museum.
Participants:
palmer_md (2)
Phoenix (2)
JeremyW (1)
Leafer (1)
guythall (1)
cleanauto (1)
waynekfong (1)
Tesla club forum :
Yes (3)
Maybe (2)
Rav4eb forum:
Yes (0)
Maybe (1)
Diyelectric
Yes (2)
Maybe (2)
When: Saturday March 2nd at 10am - whenever we have had enough.
Where: California Automobile Museum
2200 Front Street Sacramento, CA 95818-1106 Voice (916) 442-6802
http://www.calautomuseum.org/html/currentexhibits.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2200...&cid=0,0,4188505119479696851&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A
There is not any charging infrastructure on site, except they could run an extension cord to somebody in an emergency. For those who are traveling from out of town and would like to charge during their time inside the museum, we can arrange to give you a ride to the museum from a local garage with charging stations. I suggest that we all meet at 10am in the museum parking lot for a group photo of all the cars, and then we drive all those that need charging to the garage and then they can get a ride back to the museum by someone like myself who will not need to charge. It should be easy to organize in the parking lot once we are all there. Parking in these lots is $1.50/30 min with a $5 maximum charge on the weekend.
There are two garages that each have 6 J1772 EVSE’s. Capitol Garage at 10th and L Street, and City Hall Garage at 10th and I Street. Both of these are close to some eateries for after the museum tour.
After the museum tour we could bring the folks who parked in the garage back to their cars or we could meet for some food afterward on K Street. For now, I’ll suggest Pyramid Breweries
1029 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 498-9800
If there are other suggestions, perhaps we can change this. This location is 1-2 blocks from each of the suggested parking lots.
The museum has a large collection of vehicles from the teens through the 40’s as their core displays. Currently there is a nice display of cars from 1968 and also some microcars as their focus exhibits. But, why I suggested we meet here is because they also have a small collection of electric vehicles. One 1913 electric, one GM EV1, 2001 Nissan Hypermini, 2002 Nissan Altra, Nissan fuel cell Xterra, and a few others. The museum has a docent who will be on hand to give some details about the electric cars they have. If there is enough interest from the group in the other cars, we can arrange to have docents give tours of the rest of the collection as well. They really do have a fascinating collection of cars.
Because we are coming as a group, they have offered us a $2 discount on the admission. Admission will be $6 instead of the regular $8.
Here is the loose schedule (i’m sure things will slide a bit) 10:00am - meet in parking lot and arrange group photo of our cars.
10:30am - photos
10:40-11:00 - take those who need to charge to the parking garage
11:00-1:00 - museum tours
1:00 - head to pyramid for after party. This may start earlier since we may not take that long to tour the museum. Probably some folks will head over to lunch closer to 12 noon.
Please note if you are planning to attend and I’ll keep a log here of those planning to come so we can give an approximate head count to the museum.
Participants:
palmer_md (2)
Phoenix (2)
JeremyW (1)
Leafer (1)
guythall (1)
cleanauto (1)
waynekfong (1)
Tesla club forum :
Yes (3)
Maybe (2)
Rav4eb forum:
Yes (0)
Maybe (1)
Diyelectric
Yes (2)
Maybe (2)
