Green Ribbon Cutting Event News
Posted by Casey Jones Village at 1/5/2012 4:33 PM 
Categories: Old Country Store, Ongoing Events, The Shoppes, Village Events, Casey Jones Museum, Upcoming Events, Events, Gift Shoppe, Live Music, To Go, Jackson Area Plectral Society, Songwriters Depot
Categories: Old Country Store, Ongoing Events, The Shoppes, Village Events, Casey Jones Museum, Upcoming Events, Events, Gift Shoppe, Live Music, To Go, Jackson Area Plectral Society, Songwriters Depot
Casey Jones Village Installs
Blink® Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Blink® Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Green Ribbon Cutting Event January 12th
(JACKSON, TN) Officials with Casey Jones Village have announced the installation of three charging stations for electric vehicles, the only location between Memphis & Nashville currently offering this service. Owners with Casey Jones Village, local stakeholders and ECOtality, the project administrator and a leader in clean transportation and storage technologies, will have a Green Ribbon Cutting and press conference for The EV Project's Blink® electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at 1:30 pm on Thursday, January 12th at 56 Casey Jones Lane in Jackson. Casey Jones Village's Blink charging station is the first publicly available charging station installed in West Tennessee outside Shelby County.
Casey Jones Village offers three Blink Level 2 charging stations and can accommodate the all‐electric Nissan LEAF. “We are so proud to be a part of this progressive initiative. It is sustainable tourism at its finest,” Clark Shaw, Old Country Store CEO, said. He continued, "With our travel attraction on Interstate 40 at exit 80A, we feel this is an ideal and convenient location. We wanted Jackson to be a leader in this important program as the country builds the electric car charging infrastructure and helps our country decrease our dependence on foreign oil. ECOtality's goal is to bring electric vehicle charging options throughout the state of Tennessee to ultimately achieve complete coverage of I-40 from end to end. We first learned of the ECOtotality program at a Tennessee Department of Tourist Development Sustainable Tourism workshop held at the Old Country Store."
"The Tennessee Hospitality Association and our local association members are very excited to support green initiatives across the state such as the EV Project,” stated Greg Adkins, CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association that is the advocacy voice for the lodging and dining establishments in Tennessee. “As the second largest industry in the state, the hospitality industry is a natural market for consumers to use electronic transportation," Adkins added.
The EV Project is the largest deployment of electric vehicles and charge infrastructure in history. As project manager of The EV Project, San Francisco‐based ECOtality is overseeing the deployment of approximately 14,000 charging stations throughout America. The project is funded by the U. S. Department of Energy.
Casey Jones Village is located in Jackson, Tennessee at I-40 exit 80A and includes Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store, Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum and the Shoppes at Casey Jones Village. For more details visit www.caseyjones.com.
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