Tesla Model X – First Responder Training Video

Tesla Model X – First Responder Training Video Thanks to Terrance Berscheid, VE7TBC & VEVC Form Monitor for the story recommendation!   The Tesla Model X is a pretty unique vehicle, not only because it’s electric, but also because of the Falcon Wing doors and the lack of normal handles. That makes this all-new first responder training video with Brock…

LAPD will get 100 BMW i3 electric cars

LAPD will get 100 BMW i3 electric cars  Danny King, Autoblog BMW of North America said Wednesday that it will supply the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) with 100 BMW i3 electric vehicles. Still, anyone hoping to see those oddly shaped vehicles in hot pursuit along Southern California’s streets will have to wait. That’s because the cars will be used…

Classic Electric Cars for Auction

Paul Hudson , Deputy Editor, Telegraph Cars June 10, 2016 110 Year old American-Built Electric Cars For Sale The 1907 Victor High Wheel Runabout (left) and 1906 Pope Waverley Victoria Phaeton (right) are coming up for sale at auction at Brooklands [Museum, Surrey, England]. Both are now incredibly rare, but electric propulsion was considered a sufficiently viable proposition in the early years…

Snowy Norway Loves Electric Cars

Why do they love electric cars at the Arctic Circle? Chris Gibson, BBC News Technology of Business reporter 10 June 2016 Why? Because Norway, it seems, is simply nuts about electric cars. Tromso, a Norwegian city known as the “Gateway to the Arctic”, receives no sunlight for two months of the year. Yet this remote, beautiful, snowy city is the…

VIDEO: Electric cars are dirty? – It’s nonsense.

Robert Llewellyn, Fully Charged, June 7, 2016 Kudos to Terrance Berscheid & James Locke for the link   A common misconception is that electric cars charged from the grid, where we burn coal to generate electricity, are actually dirtier than petrol or diesel.  Guess what.  It’s nonsense. More info here.  

Power inverters for power outages

As our VEVC president, Manfred Wissemann has demonstrated, using an electric vehicle to power household appliances and lights during a power outage with the help of a power inverter can be quite helpful during an emergency. There are two basic types of power inverters, pure sine wave power inverters and modified sine wave power inverters.  A short video on the…

BC Government Funds for Electric Fleets

BC funds electric fleet operators The Province is providing $600,000 under the Clean Energy Vehicle (CEV) Program to encourage and accelerate the use of electric vehicles in British Columbia’s public and private fleets and reduce greenhouse gases. British Columbia has the largest public charging infrastructure network in Canada, as well as the highest per capita adoption of electric vehicles. This…

Jay Leno’s Electric Green Garage

Jay Leno is apparently Hollywood’s biggest car collector with over 100 cars and over 80 motorcycles.  He has his own Internet car show, Jay Leno’s Garage.  He seems to have quite an appreciation for electric cars and even how they charge.  His garage has even been referred to as Jay’s Green Garage.  First he put a large wind turbine on…