**** Press Release **** NDEW Followup – Poolesville #1 in DC area

It was a successful National Drive Electric Week – Poolesville event last Saturday (Sept 19, 2015). We were the #1 National Drive Electric Week event in the Washington DC area (by unofficial count of registered Electric Vehicles). We are already working to make 2016 even bigger.

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This was our 2^nd Annual National Drive Electric Week event in the Town of Poolesville. We had 42 vehicles, (15 models) registered, plus a few more showed up that were not registered. By our unofficial count, this makes us the largest NDEW event in the DC area, 5^th on the east coast, and better than 17^th out of the 195 (2 events cancelled) worldwide. We combined our event with Poolesville Day, a great family fun community event that draws people from the surrounding Maryland/DC/Virginia area. Between the two events, we had more than 10,000 people (still waiting on official counts). The NDEW event ran between 11:30 am – 4:00. Poolesville Day started off with a parade at 10 am which included 7 NDEW electric vehicles..

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See our event post: https://driveelectricweek.org/event.php?eventid=369 (and sign up for the 2016’s event!).

We provided test drives and rides on a closed road course. Many took advantage of this opportunity and we give free prizes (via random drawings) to those who did.