BC EV Announcement Deferred The ministry of transportation has deferred the announcement. Hopefully, because they might need more time to include a more comprehensive package. We are very sorry you have to cancel your travel plans from the Mainland, up-Island as well as the Gulf Islands. But, all for a good cause and the government must have good reasons to…
Energy Layoffs By Manfred Wissemann Lisa Locke, Editor Depending on how you look at it, worldwide reports seem to indicate that the oil industry has fallen on hard times and jobs are being lost. However, the solar energy sector shows world wide gains in job numbers. Currently about 2.3 million people worldwide work either directly in renewables or indirectly in supplier industries….
KIA SOUL ELECTRIC By Manfred Wissemann Katrina Kamper, sales and leasing consultant of KIA Motors, has confirmed participation in our VEVC’s President’s $100 CASH AWARD Certificate program. Under this program any one referring someone to buy an electric KIA Soul by registering in our program will receive a $100 Award from our club. Contact us for terms and conditions. ” I have only one…
e NV200 Arriving Very Soon Mandu Goebl, General Sales Manager at Victoria’s Campus Nissan in an interview last night confirmed the e-NV200 100% electric minivan is arriving very soon. Campus Nissan is one of the first dealers to be approved and certified in BC to sell the minivan in Victoria. Many have already put down a deposit to be the first to…
Nissan conducts first self-driving car tests Relaxnews Published Friday, October 30, 2015 7:49AM EDT On Thursday Nissan conducted its first self-driving car tests on highways and on inner city roads with the ultimate aim of taking what are still very much prototype technologies and making them standard features by 2020. Like Toyota’s Highway Teammate concept and Tesla’s recently rolled-out Autopilot…
BC Electric Vehicle Owners To Attend Honourable Todd Stone, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, invites Electric Vehicle owners to attend. Next week, an important announcement in front of the BC Legislature will be made with the news media, members of the legislature and EV owners in attendance. I am asking all EV owners to consider attending this event to show Canada how far we have come in…
Tesla Autopilot: The 10 Most Important Things by John Voelcker, Green Car Reports Tesla Motors is now rolling out its much-awaited “Autopilot” software for the Model S electric car, and it has revealed a number of things about how the autonomous driving system is intended to work. While an explanatory conference call on Wednesday afternoon lasted less than an hour, Tesla CEO Elon…
Island Farms Santa Light Parade 2015 Silke Sommerfeld, VEVC’s event coordinator needs Volunteers: BMW i3 , MiEV and esmart owner. all others are in place for the parade Register your BMW i3, MiEV and Smart for Two here. Begin your Christmas Season in Victoria with the magical Island Farms Santa’s Light Parade! Floats and bands, entertainment and lots of fun for…
Victoria EV Club Victoria EV Club Dear Members, (524) As of the 15 October 2015, by unanimous vote, our VLC executive board of eight members accepted the general membership’s survey results and adopted “Victoria EV Club” as our new name. Over 90% of those surveyed wanted a new name to include every electric vehicles. VEVC’s secretary treasurer, Jim Hindson is completing our Constitution and we will become a registered…
Zero Motorcycle MEET THE RIDERS WHO BETTER TO TELL THE STORY Every Zero Motorcycles rider has stories to tell about their first ride on a Zero, about people who enthusiastically ask them questions while stopped at a traffic light, the money they save on gas or the sublime feeling they get whenever they hop on their Zero. Words, photos and…
