Fast Facts | Demo Days Festival San Francisco 📍Location: Alameda Point in the San Francisco Bay Area 🛞 Demo Experiences: More than 22,000 drives and rides across all categories 🎤 EV Reality Check: 15 speakers across two days covered autonomous vehicles, grid infrastructure, and other practical EV topics 🧭 GreenCars Matchmaker: Personalized recommendations included battery-electric, plug-in hybrid, conventional hybrid, and 35-plug-mpg vehicles Record-Breaking Attendance In the Bay Area Demo Days made its first stop in the Bay Area this year, and it turned out to be the biggest weekend the festival has run. Held right on the water at Alameda Point on August 22 and 23, Demo Days allowed attendees to experience everything with a motor: gas, hybrid, or electric, with two wheels or four, over dirt or asphalt. With over 30,000 attendees across two days, Bay Area Demo Days drew the largest crowd in the festival's history. Attendees came from all over Northern California and the entire Bay Area, including the South Bay, East Bay, San Francisco, and the North Bay. Some even came from out of state. Here's a little bit of what they got to experience. Test Driving the Latest Vehicles Eighty percent of surveyed attendees said they came specifically to test-drive something. The lineup of vehicles available to test drive included passenger cars from first-time auto exhibitors Honda and Ram, alongside Toyota, Tesla, Jeep, Kia, Hyundai, and Rivian, including the first-ever public demo of the all-new Rivian R2. Attendees could also view a display truck from Slate, one of the fledgling automaker's first public showings. It's a good example of what makes Demo Days special: getting people behind the wheel of the latest, most anticipated vehicles. The test drives took place on a nearby airstrip, and the layout encouraged back-to-back cross-shopping. Many visitors turned a single