Photo Credit: Gilmore Car Museum
September 9th is beginning to gain special significance for EV owners, becoming a meeting point for electric mobility supporters around the world, coordinated by the World EV Forum. For those interested, you will find more details at the end about World EV Day, its goals, methods, and especially suggestions for active participation.
This year we decided to attend the event organized by the KEVA – EV association in Kalamazoo, a passionate community of owners, I have written about several times. The meeting place was the Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan, a perfect venue for all kinds of automotive gatherings, even though its core profile — the one that built its reputation — is classic car models.
On the generous green lawns surrounding the museum buildings, car enthusiasts meet every Wednesday evening to display their vehicles and chat about automotive topics with friends, acquaintances, other enthusiasts, or simply visitors passing by.
This pleasant and constructive environment dedicated to automotive education was also chosen by the Kalamazoo EV owners’ community for their monthly meetups — moments of reconnecting with people motivated by many shared ideals about efficient, quiet, and cleaner transportation.
Being my first time attending at Gilmore — but certainly not the last — I captured general images, a few of the exhibits present on the evening of September 9th, and especially the participants in the section dedicated to electric vehicles.
Gilmore Classic Car Museum
KEVA Event – Kalamazoo Electric Vehicle Association
The meeting location was marked on the map distributed in advance by prof. Paul Pancella to all participants, and also on-site through the event tent and flags visible from a distance.
Participants and our 2018 Model 3
The weather gave us a bit of everything: cool air, light rain, and sunshine at the end — but the atmosphere remained warm, friendly, and open to exchanging ideas about sustainable transportation.
A few familiar models for our European friends
A unique one… with humor
North American models
A final message for skeptics and undecided drivers
World EV Day
If many of the ideas in the text below seem familiar, it is because they overlap with the objectives of the Electromobilitate project since 2018.
It would be good to keep them in front of us whenever we discuss a new EV event.
Our Purpose
To unite comms leaders, amplify powerful EV storytelling and accelerate the shift to a cleaner, electric future.
Our Goals
Peer collaboration, networking, and support
Knowledge sharing and insight exchange
Greater visibility and impact for positive e-mobility communicationsOur Outcomes
- Share key actionable insights and ideas
- Commission original research
- Map out collaborative campaigns and activations for World EV Day™
Develop high-level partnership opportunities
If you’re passionate about shaping the EV narrative, influencing public perception and accelerating global EV adoption, this is your space.
Register your interest and be part of the movement
My lifelong automotive career started with design and testing of ICEs, continued with service and sales, followed by 20 years of global seat design, requirements and knowledge management.
My recent passion for electric vehicles found its home at 24auto.ro and electromobilitate.
