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PatchCast: Suncoast Electric Vehicles Deals for the Future
Richard Nimphie talks about his Suncoast Electric Vehicles business and the costs and benefits of owning an electric car, truck and van. Franchises available in the Tampa Bay market.
Richard Nimphie is pretty sure of one thing: the electric car, he told a reporter late last year, is “going to be a gotta-have product.”
Nimphie posts notice of this report on the blog for his business, Suncoast Electric Cars, at 2401 4th Street North in St. Petersburg. His business is said to be the state’s first all-electric car dealership.
Here, before the PatchCast camera, Nimphie talks about the Wheego electric car and the Vantage truck and the lure of a business that he says is the “direction for the automobile business” moving forward.
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With one overnight charge, the Wheego gets 40 miles; a highway version lasts up to 100 miles on one charge.
The battery pack lasts four to 5 years.
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Nimphie’s marketing strategy, he said, is “for businesses, municipalities as well as consimers, to have an alternative, cut their operating cost down to basically 2 cents per mile.”
Franchises are available in the Tampa Bay market. As Nimphie puts it: “We are looking to expand in the future and we certainly think this is the future.”