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Greenscape Getting Juiced Up For An Electric Future

Greenscape Capital Group Inc. (TSX.V:GRN) knows that changing the world overnight is hard work but they also know it doesn’t have to be dull work. Convincing the average citizen to make what may seem to them like drastic changes to their everyday lives, is more difficult for those of us trying to do the actual convincing, by both the bewildering array of ways to change and by the grey cloud of data smog that often obscures common sense in efforts to create a greener world.

That smog is hard to penetrate both for citizens and for pioneering companies faced with growing climate change fatigue; is it real, isn’t it? Well just forget all that for a moment: don’t you want to drive an electric car and charge it up at custom stations all over British Columbia?

Yeah, you do.

When faced with the daily bombardment of impenetrable theory and the dull drone of endless debate people naturally want to just go back to making playlists for their i-pods. This isn't a flippant reference or a mere pop-culture trope: we need to change the tone of the conversation; we need to generate excitement, to charge people up with the possible and inspire them with the new. Well, when it comes to blowing away the bad weather of daily globe saving announcements and counter announcements, people are certain to be able to clearly see the excitement and potential of Greenscape’s partnership with Garage Juice Bar, LLC to launch a program to connect British Columbia with an extensive electric vehicle charging station Network.

A Pioneering Network
That future you imagined when you were a kid in your bedroom, with silent cars zipping and zooming above the humming city in elevated tubes may not be here quite yet but with this announcement Greenscape and their friends Garage Juice have brought that dream a little bit closer. On February 4th. 2010 the two companies announced ambitious plans to make British Columbia the first juristdiction in North America to be completely linked with electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

This pioneering network will be 100% privately financed and will link all of British Columbia through the installation of EV charging stations on properties owned or operated by existing Greenscape energy retrofit clients and on other third-party properties. This arrangement will work in tandem with The Juice Bar, a leader in EV charging station solutions, who are currently also negotiating agreements with several US municipalities to provide EV charging station networks through the Green Garage Initiative, a team of energy conservation and alternative energy innovators.

Retrofit Future
Greenscape's unique GreenSwitch retrofit model has already resulted in the development of symbiotic relationships with a deep network of forward looking businesses spread across the very industries required to make this network hum. Greenscape and The Juice Bar will take advantage of these partnerships, by building single stall EV plug-in kiosks, and installing them at ordinary parking garages and other strategic locations developed through their extensive work through Green.Switch. Greenscape and

The Juice Bar will share the potentially significant revenue generated at these kiosks with their partners as these EV kiosks create some powerful marketing synergies and brand-building opportunities in addition to the EV charging revenues

As demand for, transportation alternatives rises, car makers across the planet will begin to launch Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) and full Electric Vehicles (Evs). This is a market inevitability and the development of a reliable, efficient, and accessible network of EV charging stations will be utterly crucial to the survival and future success of these 'too big to fail' auto giants.. Greenscape, through its strategic partnerships and green retrofitting expertise, will be a true pioneer in this effort and stands to benefit massively from that status.

Friends Are Electric
Electric cars. Everywhere. With cool retrofitted kiosks in convenient and low cost locations to charge them.

Hooray.

This unique partnership is in perfect harmony to deliver significant value to existing Greenscape energy retrofit contracts and to create a very strong future revenue growth potential.

As Green.Switch CEO Ryan Skomorowski puts it:

"Many of the major auto manufacturers are on track for electric vehicle production in the near term. There will be a growing demand for an easy and accessible network of EV charging stations, otherwise consumers will be limited to charging their electric vehicles at home. Through existing relationships with our retrofit clients, Green.Switch is in an excellent position to meet this coming demand. The roll out of this network is targeted to provide revenue for Green.Switch and its partners while also creating market differentiation and brand building opportunities for our current energy retrofit clients. Greenscape is proving that these networks can be financed by the private sector and this is a great example of a British Columbia based company creatively emerging as a market leader by targeting both energy efficiency and profitability in the same transactions."

Greenscape & Green.Switch
Greenscape’s broad company mandate is about improving the environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and ultimately the profitability of companies and their operations. They achieve this through Green.Switch which is a full service energy retrofitting company offering practical solutions for businesses to green their operations and reduce energy costs.

Garage Juice Bar LLC
Garage Juice Bar, LLC is a leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging station solutions; working with partners in the United States and Canada to provide innovative charging networks across multiple platforms. Garage Juice Bar is an active participant in the Green Garage Initiative, a team of energy conservation and alternative energy innovators.The creation of an open-sourced platform for EV charging stations will support the integration of a vehicle-based transportation system that is not entirely dependent upon petroleum as a fuel.

Green Forward
Sometimes a cool idea with retro-futurist cachet can cut its way through the murk of ceaseless debate. Electric cars and networks for charging them are no longer part of our past's imagining of a Jetsons's future, but are being built right now in this very province. I'm certain that many investors will be electrified by this project's profit potential but equally happy to be able to go home and say to their kids hey guess what I helped create today? Green forward investors will want to drive in and charge up at this venture sooner rather than later.

Follow the company's progress at: www.greenscapecapital.com

SOURCE: http://www.midasletter.com/news/10040801_Greenscape-get-juiced-up-for-an-electric-future.php


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