Well, it was very interesting meeting Anne Ku and Ethan Elkind earlier this week. They did some great work for the Maui EV Alliance. The reports on the site are very nicely done. Anne mentioned to me that there is an RFP available for R&D funds related to EV infrastructure available here on the Big Island (closing soon — April).

The RFP is for R&D. i.e. you can’t buy charge stations. You have to be a non-profit organization, not an individual. And you have to find matching funds.  I don’t know, I am just putting it out there. Some of you may have leads or be interested in running with it. Apparently the amount anywhere from $2500 to $50,000.

My thought is that there is a fair bit of leg work involved in chatting with people at various strategic places on the Big Island where we need Level-III or at least Level-II charge stations. We all know pretty much where that those places would be. But getting willing locations and educating them about what it means to host a charge station would be valuable to us and (I think) may fit within the bounds of the RFP.

Here are the links that Anne sent me:

Well, let’s see what comes of it…

http://records.co.hawaii.hi.us/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=63872&dbid=1

http://records.co.hawaii.hi.us/Weblink8/Browse.aspx?startid=18411&dbid=1

Doug