VW From Scandal To Electric By Jordan Golson, Gear VW Plans to Recover From Its Scandal by Going Electric NOW THAT THE Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal is a month old, the new VW Brand Board of Management is beginning to publicly discuss its plans for the future—and how they’ve changed. Step one: Use emission control systems that actually control emissions. Step…
The Truth Leaked Out of City Hall VLC TWEET has been noticed by the City of Saanich. A re-tweet below confirming adoption of 100% electric cars. @LovemyLEAF Not yet, but Saanich adding 4 EVs (for total of 9) and Victoria adding 9 EVs. Hope to have them by January 2016. There are also rumors to replace all “clean diesel” buses by BYD 100%…
USED US LEAF IS OK FOR ME! Dr Marty Cole, Podiatrist, Surgeon, Food Orthotics helping patients from Victoria to Nanaimo . Marty is spending over $600 on gas and maintenance. a month in order to visit his clinics. With a Nissan LEAF electric car he will be spending almost zero emissions and zero dollars. He will be saving about 107,183.61 over twelve years re-investing…
Colwood Fast Charger Update Very impressive work done by the city of Colwood. The new fast charger is located across from the Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre in the heart of Colwood and provides parking for people wanting to car pool. This is an ideal opportunity for people to park their gas or clean diesel cars and drive to Victoria in…
Victoria Saanich Fleet Cars All Electric Where there is smoke there is fire. Rumors have it Victoria and Saanich signed a deal to scrap all its diesel and gas fleet cars and switch to 100% electric. VLC welcomes this move, if true, to sustainable energy that may be the beginning of cleaning up our cities of harmful diesel and gas…
e Apple Project Titan Could Apple be creating a self-driving car? by Zaran Tarapore Above: Apple’s Project Titan electric car possible concept design No one seems to know for sure what the new self driving Apple electric car will look like. eApple or iCar would be cool names regardless of the final choices. According to the latest MacRumors’ report by Juli Clover: Apple…
By Jim Hindson FREE ELECTRIC CAR WITH EVERY TOWNHOUSE! A first for Greater Victoria and possibly a first in the world- a brand new Electric Vehicle (EV) and fully installed wall charger when you purchase a new Zebra Design Townhome from Large & Co Developers! Every unit in the 10 unit development ParkView at 1060 Tillicum Road near Craigflower, comes with…
$100 ECO AWARD ANYONE ELSE? As President of the VLC I would like to thank Julian Sale, Principal Owner of Victoria’s own Motorize Direct for their $150 cheque shown here from Cameron Wall, Operations and Sales. Motorize Direct specializes in reselling electric vehicles like the Nissan LEAF. Another two ECO Awards Sheri Plummer from Parksville, BC receiving a $50 ECO AWARD certificate in recognition of…
The $100 ECO AWARD CHEQUE Program Manfred Wissemann, founding President of the Victoria LEAF Club has received a $300 cheque from a sponsor dealer: Campus Nissan’s sales manager Mandu Goebl. This will be used to give out $100 ECO AWARD CHEQUES to any one who purchases or refers us to someone resulting in a consequent sale. See here for details and VLC…
