GoEarthfriendly! is an organization of transportation specialists working together with additional business partners to create a a more sustainable and environmentally friendly transportation and mobile application system throughout the Northeast United States.  Goearthfriendly! will deploy this infrastructure through a central engineering center to develop applications for franchised “battery service stations” locations throughout the northeast United States.  The economic key is in the leasing of battery packs for developed applications such that the service stations are the first place thought of for all recharging battery technology; as well as a secondary use location as a power storage facility for “net metering” on the grid.

Other uses this infrastructure will serve at each local level are the conversions of vehicles for specific fleet applications, such as van sized school transportation, college maintenance vehicles, and other service fleets that can be converted over easily with a lower cost basis due to leased battery systems.  Small trucks with frames in them, which are no longer available from the “big 3”  are ideal for such conversions and have already been proven out by many “hobby” conversion specialists.

Golf car fleets are an additional economically feasible application as many golf carts are already electric, although present lead acid systems limit their use.  Li-ion technology provides more power for longer periods of time to enable golf courses in environmentally sensitive areas who have used gas powered carts to convert to electric.   Environmentally friendly applications such as idle reduction at truck stops and “swappable” batteries on mowers and other garden implements would also replace typical fossil fueled uses for a better environment.  New battery applications are only limited by our blind acceptance of fossil fuels in so much of our lives.