Drive Electric Earth Month
Thousand Oaks Arbor Day and EV Showcase
Thousand Oaks, CA
Apr 19 2025

Event Report

2025 Arbor / Earth Day Thousand Oaks

For the fourth consecutive year, the City of Thousand Oaks celebrated Arbor Day and Earth Day at the Thousand Oaks Community Center. Once again, the EV Advocates of Ventura organized an EV Educational booth, which provided materials on vehicle options, available rebates, charging tips, using EVs to power home appliances for resilience purposes, and discovering new charger locations. Guests got to check out the EV showcase and interact with the owners. 

The EV Showcase had 22 vehicles lined up under the solar canopy. Vehicles on display included a Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, Kia Niro, Ford Lightning, Rivian R1T, Chevrolet Volt Gen1, Chevrolet 2024 Silverado EV RST First Edition, 2022 Lucid Air, 2025 Lucid Air, 2025 Chevrolet Equinox EV RST, 2025 Dodge Charger 2-Dr Daytona, 2025 Jeep Wagoneer S AWD, 2025 Chevrolet Silverado EV LT, 2025 Chevrolet Blazer LT, 2024 Tesla Model 3, 2025 Tesla Model Y, 2022 Zero Motorcycle, Tesla Model 3. Chevrolet Bolt EV. 

The celebration brought together over 900 community members who were interested in learning what they can do to conserve resources, clean the air, and take advantage of rebates and programs to save money.

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Event Description

Join us to celebrate Arbor Day plus all things Electric at this free, family-friendly event highlighting environmental and clean energy solutions

Arbor Day Activities:

• Compost and native plant giveaways
• Kids recycling games & arts/crafts
• Bicycle instruction and safety course
• Bicycle donation/collection for underserved youth (hosted by Conejo Rec & Park)
• Raffles
• Live music
• The City of Thousand Oak's waste hauler, Athens Services, will answer questions about trash, recycling and organics collection services.

Electric Tranportation

EV Advocates of Ventura County will host an EV display where owners will show off a variety of EV makes and models--trucks, e-bikes and electric motorcycles included--answer questions and provide first-hand experience and insight on the benefits of EV driving.

• EV charging basics (home & away)
• EV rebates & incentives
• Variety: Makes and models of EVs
• Used EVs
• E-bikes and electric motorcycles

Learn About/See Whole-Home Electrification: 

• Solar panels: savings & efficiency
• Renewable energy for renters
• Community solar 
• Battery resiliency
• Heat pumps & hot water heat pumps 
• Home electrification rebates
• Solar for your school or business

We hope you'll join us!

 

Registered Attendees

There are currently 30 attendees registered.

Owners of These Vehicles Have Registered To Attend

Registered attendees report 796,100 electric miles driven.