TeslaXCanada Sendoff

** Change of Location: Now Mile 0 Monument **  Saturday June 11, 10:30 am Join Silke, Rolf and Kye at Mile 0 Monument on Saturday, June 11, 10:30 – 11am as they get ready to leave on a 3 month trip across Canada in their Tesla Model X and Camping Trailer. With this trip, Rolf and Silke are planning to raise…

Norway to ‘completely ban all petrol powered cars by 2025’

Jeff Stuafenberg, Independent.co.uk, June 4, 2016 ‘What an amazingly awesome country’, Elon Musk tweeted in response to the plan. Norway will ban the sale of all fossil fuel-based cars in the next decade, continuing its trend towards becoming one of the most ecologically progressive countries on the planet, according to reports. Politicians from both sides of the political spectrum have reportedly reached some concrete conclusions about…

Tesla 2016 Shareholders Meeting – Mistakes and Secrets

Shareholders Meeting video starts around 30 minute mark.  Lasts for 3 1/2 hours –  jammed with Tesla history and stories.  See below for play by play of some of the highlights.   Play by Play: Elon Musk Recounts the Secret History of Tesla Motors Chris Woodyard, USA Today, May 31, 2016   Tesla CEO Elon Musk is talking to shareholders, starting with a…

DIY Solar Furnaces

Marc Semail, VEVC Contributor   Solar panels made from aluminum cans … a Canadian company, CanSolair, has been doing this for a number of years.  Does it work? Well, Jay Ingram, host of the Daily Planet on the Discovery Channel, and author of “The Ultimate Book of Everyday Science” identifies Jim’s invention as an “ingenious device for using solar energy to heat buildings.”…

Salt Spring Island

Jim Standen, VEVC Member Salt Spring Island, BC As I finished my BCSEA Webinar, Silence in the Streets: The Future of Transport in BC and watched our Salt Spring Island (SSI) EV Celebration film again, I sat back and paused to reflect on how much progress we have made with the growth of fully electric vehicles ownership on SSI. We were an…