I've got my new Avatar set up. A few pictures have been posted to the Electric Vehicles section of the DK Photo Cooperative.
Here's an article about one of the other San Diego early purchasers. In my opinion, this car may not be ideal for this purchaser, at least at this time. In the short term, she needs a long extension cord.
Blink and ECOtality are working on the infrastructure. It will be interesting to see how this rolls out. I will certainly organize my shopping around the places that have charging stations. I think that the slow delivery rate of the cars has caused a lack of short-term incentive for these to be installed privately.
As for the car itself, I decided to play a bit to check out the performance. I've started dropping out of Eco mode a bit into drive. It's a very noticeable difference. The Eco mode sets the engine to maximize the reclaiming of energy. In Eco mode, taking your foot off of the accelerator leads to a much quicker slow down than drivers are used to. Whereas the same in the Drive mode coast just as a normal car. But the real fun was powering up steep hills. I was surprised at just how fast I could get up to speed even on a steep slope. It was very responsive. I've been a bit too busy to update the numbers this week, but everything seems to be consistent for now. No major issues and no more nights forgetting to charge.
This week we'll be expanding into 100% charging for a night. Wednesday should be our highest mileage day to date.