National Drive Electric Week, September 12-20, 2015, is a nationwide celebration to heighten awareness of today's widespread availability of plug-in vehicles. The event highlights the benefits of all-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric cars, trucks, motorcycles, electric bicycles, and scooters. They are fun to drive, less expensive to refuel than gasoline vehicles, are better for the environment, promote local jobs, and reduce our country's dependence on imported foreign oil: https://driveelectricweek.org/

NV Energy, The Springs Preserve and the Nevada Electric Vehicle Accelerator (NEVA) program will be promoting the observance of National Drive Electric Week at Las Vegas during that week, in cooperation with local electric vehicle supporters in the region.  These include Las Vegas Tesla Owners, the Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association, the SolarNV chapter of the American Solar Energy Society, the Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club, GoSpace, The Hybrid Shop and more.

The Las Vegas event will be staged at the Springs Preserve on Saturday, September 12th from 10 AM to 4 PM.  The event will include the 2nd Annual "Juice Bar Crawl", that will feature a caravan of plug-in electric cars and passengers. Drivers and riders will tour local recharging stations and other electric vehicle support facilities.

The Juice Bar Crawl will start at Springs Preserve parking lot, where there are four AC Level 2 EV Charging ports that are powered during the daytime by photovoltaic solar cell arrays that automatically track and align with the movement of the sun.

The Crawl will end at the NV Energy Pearson campus near Jones and Sahara Blvd, where 10 EV charging ports also draw power from a south-facing photovoltaic solar-cell canopy.

The sun shines brightly about 300 days each year in the high Mojave Desert that surrounds the Las Vegas Valley, providing many homeowners with enough electricity for both their homes and their electric-powered vehicles.