PetitJean - Charge from Street Lights !

Ex-Heuliez / Mia CEO starts PetitJean, a French street light charging company



Another illustration of the idea I had years ago: use street lights poles to plug in Electric Vehicles
Power is already there, they are numerous in town, where people park along the sidewalk, so why not use them !

It is simple and uses regular outlets


Here a Mia Electric is used for demonstration purposes

David RAMEAUX explains that it straight forward and simple to build: we just cut out an opening in the pole, install regular outlets, and install a secure locking mechanism; Et voilà ! :-) - I would not install any locking mechanism and would provide free electricty to people who help getting out of gas and pollution buying an Electric Car 

LEGRAND Green'up Outlet

Demonstration parking @ PetitJean

If I reacall well, Paul QUEVEAU use to be Heuliez (former Mia Electric) CEO and was involved with creating the Friendly - the former Mia -

Their products are Made in France, and have this new label "Origine FRANCE Garantie" which means every component is also Made in France

PETITJEAN Made in France - EV Charge from Street Light Poles

Mia Electric Test Drive

Last saturday I was lucky to be able to finally test the Mia Electric !

I received an email from a sales person at Mia Electric, inviting me to come to Designers Days exhibition in Pantin, a city next to Paris (North Est). I went with my son and there we saw, on along with this artists exhibiton, two Mia: One customized by the team of artitsts calling themwelves Cocotte-Power and one belonging to Michel VARNIER, the person in charge of sales in Paris and surroundings.

And we got to to test drive his car: it is a silver regular 3-seater version, 12 kWh battery pack, with 2500 km already

More on the Designers Days & the Customized Mia in this other post

Dashboard instrumentation close-up: Fully charged, 102 km estmated range, Eco Mode, odo: 2543 km

Nice clean dashboard: Drive/Neutral/Reverse all in one button, Warning lights, Eco Mode

Michel VARNIER with my son, showing the car

Mr VARNIER showing it to an old man wondering what it was

From the Desginer Days 'house

Here is the video of Mia's ancestor, Firendly, shot almost 3 years ago, in september 2009 at Paris cityhall
The design has been improved, but the original concept I liked from the beginning is still intact :-)

Mia Red & Black Slideshow - Heuliez Friendly flashback

Here is a slideshow of all the pictures of the Mia I took last saturday

This reminded me when I first photographed the Heuliez Friendly back in September 2009, the first prototype of the future Mia ... I believed in this eletric car from the start and thought it would be a hit;
Years after, and with a better look, it is starting to become one, and was in March number one in electric car sales in France (after the Bluecar / Autolib).

Mia Electric and its Mia & Mia Paris : already 1000 sold in Europe ... !