Evie is the first municipally-owned electric car share program in the country! To find out what it's like to use the service and how it might fit into your life, we're riding along with Madi Johnson on her first Evie trip. We're also joined in the studio by James Vierling from HOURCAR to give more background about Evie.

Episode summary 00:00 | Intro 01:01 | Ian's car share story 04:16 | Madi's transportation story 10:07 | Differences between Evie and HOURCAR 14:37 | Starting our journey 17:59 | "There's nothing super futuristic about it" 18:59 | Driving to Fleet Farm 22:07 | The municipal ownership model 27:16 | The home area 33:20 | Making fewer, consolidated trips 36:52 | Strategically placing charging stations 38:15 | The car's handling 43:43 | Long distance trips 47:55 | Unloading 50:08 | Plugging in 52:26 | The invoice 54:47 | Outro Photos from the journey

Connect with us!

• Madi on Twitter
• Ian on Twitter
• Evie's website

Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was hosted and edited by Ian R Buck, with transcript by the indominable Mike Allen. Christy Marsden is our awesome guest booker, and technical assistance is provided by the super professional Brian Mitchell. If you're able to help make sure this team gets paid for the hard work they do, please consider donating. We really appreciate it!

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