POCATELLO — Owners of electric vehicles plan to present their cars and trucks to the local community this weekend. These vehicle owners will gather in the parking lot of the Marshall Public Library at 541 West Lewis Street for the Pocatello EV Expo from 9 a.m.
until 1 p.m. There will be around 16 different electric vehicles parked, and the owners plan to answer questions from attendees and explain what they love about their cars.
“It’s just people, it’s your neighbors, it’s just people down the street who have been driving their electric vehicles for several years and are excited about it and want to tell people. So there’s virtually no sales pitch,” said Linda Engle, secretary of the Portneuf Resource Council Board of Directors. There will be a wide range of electric vehicles that meet a variety of consumer needs.
People will be able to learn more about affordable vehicles, like the Ford Fusion Energi or the Chevrolet Bolt. For those more interested in luxury EVs, there will be at least two kinds of Teslas at the event. This is the third year that the non-profit has held the expo in conjunction with National Drive Electric Week, and Engle said the event has grown since the first year.
This year, the event’s marketing was limited to community calendar updates, but there will be more vehicles at this expo then the event has had before. “People started coming to us (to register) their vehicles,” Engle said. “We have done virtually no marketing and people a.