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Drive Electric Earth Month EV Fest 2024

Long Beach, California.  April 13, 2024

Photos and Report by Carl Morrison, Carl@TeslaTouring.com
http://TeslaTouring.com/carl/EVFestLongBeachApril13,2024

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Host of the event was Tesla Club SoCal, SoCal EVs and Long Beach City College, at 1305 E. Pacific Coast Highway
Long Beach, CA 90806

My main interest in attending this event was to get inside a Cybertruck and get some photos for my friends.  The first Cybertruck I ever saw in public was on the 22 Fwy heading to Long Beach.  It was advertised that there would be 10 Cybertrucks at this event and there were even more.  Several were parked side by side starting with the red-fade-to-black Cybertruck owned by Tesla Club SoCal - photo at the top of this page with several next to it.

The best displayed Cybertruck was one brought by Long Beach Tesla.  I found that later I could actually get inside for some photos.

Table of Contents

I.  Tesla Cybertrucks inside and out, with window sticker price sheet.

II.  Ford Lightning electric pickups and Ford Mustangs.


III.  Tesla Customized entries:  Cybertrucks, Model 3, Model X, and Model S.

IV.  Non-Tesla EVs in attendance

V.  EVs with unusual accessories.

VI.  Gas vehicles converted to battery-electric engines


VII.  Vendors.

VIII.  Links for this report.




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Cybertruck brought by Long Beach Tesla, set at Medium height.

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Click on any photo on this page for a larger image.

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5 seats and glass roof over cab like Tesla sedans.  A six-foot attendee sat in the middle back seat and said it was roomy enough for him.

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Closed tail gate with Tonneau cover closed over 6-ft. bed.

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Front trunk (Frunk) open.

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Screen with Controls showing.  It was set at "Medium" height so I could easily enter.

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Oval steering wheel with scroll buttons.  Stalks have been eliminated so these scroll buttons have the controls that used to be on the stalks.

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Steering wheel, screen, and open glove box

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Roof is tinted glass, clear window to bed with Tonneau cover open.

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I found the window sticker in the Long Beach Tesla Cybertruck and took some photos of the sticker.

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With total price.

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Traditional receptacle now called NACS which others have adopted.

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Other privately owned, and wrapped Cybertrucks.

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Stickers in front window of silver Cybertruck above.

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The event's promotion said there would also be "Ford F-150 Lightning and models from Rivian, GM, Lucid, VW and more".

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The connection for charging is behind the left front wheel.  Since Ford will soon be able to charge at Tesla Superchargers, and Tesla's all have their charge port on the back left tail light, the Fords will have to take up 2 cabinets to reach the charge cord.


Ford F-150 Lightning cash

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I did find one Window sticker in a Ford F-150 Lightning.

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Ford Mustang Mach-Es

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The most common attendee and customized entries were Teslas; Cybertrucks, Model 3, Model X, and Model S.

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They kindly had us unregistered, uncustomized Teslas park in this area.  Our "Big Red" 2020 Model 3, Rear Wheel Drive, Standard Plus battery.

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Not far away were registered, customized Model 3s and other Teslas.

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Tesla Club SoCal's Tesla  Join their mailing list for future EV event notices:  https://teslaclubsocal.com/
Mr. Tesla Club SoCal above right

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With its extreme customization, I was not sure what make this EV was, but it is a Tesla.

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Tesla Model X

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Seems like it would be hard to go and not drink-and-drive.

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Model 3 or Y on left, Model X on right (with falcon wings).

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I thought this was very creative where the Tesla owner painted his air ride equipment cannister to look like a Duracell battery.

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Other EVs in attendance, non-Teslas

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GMC's Hummer EV

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Porsche Taycan

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Audi e-tron

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Audi


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I don't know the make, but I thought the white tape was interesting

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Cars with unusual accessories.

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Tesla Model Y with camping kit and spare tire

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Bike rack and car carrier

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Leather interior in 6-seater

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Starlink and sub trunk refrigerator

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Gas vehicles converted to battery-electric engines

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This fellow quoted an attendee a ball park figure of $150,000 for a conversion like this Mustang

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Fiat roadster conversion to battery electric

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Rear engine vehicles are the easiest to convert to battery electric engines such as this VW van.

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Accessories Booths

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This booth had a sun glasses case for under the screen in a Tesla plus a portable Level 2 Charger for apartment dwellers.  However, I could not find information online about the portable charger at https://www.unitedevmobile.com/

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Their Web page:  https://evject.com/

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More information:  https://electricbikecompany.com/

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ZERO brand electric motorcycle.  More at:  https://zeromotorcycles.com/

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