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EV’s in every corner of the states! Check out Miami EV Project…

I have to admit, that there are some folks out there in the EV world who are just plain mean. Especially to folks like us at Frankencar, who aren’t exactly engineers, some of the really smarty-pants guys on the EV forums can get pretty snappy and demoralizing when it comes to helping out with the techy side of things.

So it’s nice when once in awhile another EV-er pops up out of the blue in a positive, encouraging way. And that’s what happened with our friends over at the Miami EV Project.

Of course, these guys are ahead of us (their car is done and built and beautiful already) while we haven’t even really blogged much about our actual build yet at all. In case you were wondering though, we’re not far off as we just found out we WON’T be using any fancy-pants batteries (at least not yet) and we will be making the Frankencar Electrocity similar to the Miami MEVP1. By the way, that’s Electrocity as in, electirc-atrocity, not electro-city.

Back to the Miami EV Project – Dang that’s a sweet wrap! What a great way to get attention. In fact, sorry MEVP but the Frankencar’s gonna have a sweet wrap now…maybe even sweeter than yours!

MEVP has also been very prolific with their work, not just making the car, but showing it off at the Green Art Fair as pictured here, they were featured in a Best Of Miami magazine for best green initiative, they’re involved with the Miami EVA’s electric highway project, and if I understand correctly, they’re well on their way to completing the MEVP2!

Much kudos to you guys! If only everyone in the EV community could be as positive and  hard-working as you, our little group would have a lot more exposure and be a much friendlier place.

We just hope Frankencar can have a similar impact here in the Portland area. Stay tuned for more build updates as they come.

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