by Alysha Webb for Automotive News, January 9, 2012
Experts doubt year-old venture can survive as electrics-only business
After his two Lexus dealerships in Florida were sold to AutoNation in 1997, Richard Nimphie stayed for nine years to run them. But he wanted his own business, and one idea kept jumping out at him [...]
Full article →Wheego dealer Suncoast EVs will display a Wheego LiFe at the Tampa Bay International Auto Show, November 18-20 in Tampa, Florida.
Hundreds of the latest vehicles will take over the Tampa Convention Center for the 2012-Model Tampa Bay International Auto Show. This exciting automotive event will offer an up-close look at the [...]
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by Mary Shanklin for the Orlando Sentinel
The developer of Lake Nona announced a partnership Thursday with General Electric Co. to equip homes in its Laureate Park community with energy-savings features that include electric-car charging stations.
The collaboration is one of GE’s first with a residential project as large [...]
Full article →Suncoast Electric Vehicles is hosting a screening of the new movie “What is the Electric Car?”
The screening is October 26th, 2011 at 7pm – come to the movie screening and you’ll be entered in a chance to win an electric bike! Details below:
Full article →by Keith Morelli for Tampa Bay Online, Oct. 13, 2011
TAMPA –
A version of the future arrived at eight city parking lots Wednesday.
Ten charging stations for electric cars sparked to life, marking the first time in Tampa’s history that such innovations were plunked down amid parking meters and pay stations.
It’s only [...]
Full article →By Aubrey Whelan for the St. Petersburg Times, August 10, 2011
ST. PETERSBURG — Electric cars aren’t exactly a staple on the roads here — but city officials are betting that will change soon as they prepare to install 10 electric car charging stations in downtown St. Petersburg.
The stations are part of the Get [...]
Full article →MyFox Tampa Bay, June 30, 2011
Tampa Bay’s first electric car station: MyFoxTAMPABAY.com
TAMPA, FL – Call it one small step toward making gas pumps a thing of the past.
On Thursday, AAA Club South unveiled the first of 100 electric car charging stations at its offices in Palm [...]
Full article →by Ashley Reams for the Temple Terrace, FL Patch, June 10, 2011
Eddie Davis, the City of Temple Terrace’s fleet maintenance foreman, slid into the seat of a two-passenger electric car.
He had just been inside an electric truck whose cab was slightly smaller. From the driver’s seat of the car, Davis [...]
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by Niela Eliason for the St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 2011
’11 Wheego Whip LiFe
I got an electric car! It’s called a Wheego. I won’t have to buy any gas. It is peppy and can go 70 miles an hour, but with no roaring sound. I plug it in to be recharged [...]
Full article →by Dottie Hanan Smith for Automotive Discovery, March 30, 2011
Suncoast Electric Vehicles is now open in St. Petersburg, Florida offering Wheego electric cars and Vantage electric vans & trucks. The dealership offers all electric zero emission vehicles for commercial, municipal and consumer needs.
Suncoast owner Richard Nimphie says, ““I am told that I [...]
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