- Dates
- 2008-08-10 – 2008-08-17
- Kind
- Transportation
- Eras
- Modern era
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- Beaver Island
Summary
After reading about Beaver Island’s electric-car show, writer Kirk Seaman pitched Automotive News on living with an electric vehicle on the Island. He and Sue arrived on August 10, 2008, with a GEM and a ZENN arranged with Dan Wardlow’s help and spent a week at Donegal Bay. The report says a GEM dealer also hosted a luncheon for eleven electric-vehicle owners.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper feature about a realized visit and planned magazine coverage; it does not include the later Automotive News article or an independent assessment of the vehicles’ performance.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2008, electric-vehicle feature following the hotel advertisement and preceding Ed Wojan Realty.Reports professional writer Kirk Seaman’s Automotive News pitch and the resulting week on Beaver Island with Sue, Dan Wardlow, and two electric vehicles—a GEM and a ZENN—at Donegal Bay; the visit included a luncheon with 11 EV owners. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the electric-vehicle feature.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Beaver Island Archive, “Kirk and Sue Seaman spend a week on Beaver Island with electric vehicles, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-automotive-news-electric-vehicle-week-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2008, electric-vehicle feature following the hotel advertisement and preceding Ed Wojan Realty. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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