March 26, 2017

Airbus Reveals Its Pop.Up Flying Car Concept In Geneva

Electric Cars Report During the 87th Geneva Motor Show, Airbus and Italdesign world- premiered Pop.Up, the first modular, fully electric, zero emission concept vehicle system designed to relieve traffic congestion in crowded megacities. Pop.Up envisages a modular system for multi-modal transportation that makes full use of both ground and airspace. The feasible concept is the result of Italdesign and Airbus’ joint reflection on how to address…

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March 26, 2017

Volkswagen To Launch 30 New All-Electric Cars – Yes, 30

Anton Wahlman, Seeing Alpha March 16, 2017 VW’s electrification plans consist of three main steps: (1) Current and refreshed cars, (2) two flagships from Audi/Porsche, and (3) an all-new platform. The most interesting of these is naturally the third and final step: The all-new 100% electric platform. Pilot production of this “MEB” platform starts around mid-2019 and customer volume production…

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March 26, 2017

Lucid Motors announces aggressive $60,000 base price for its luxury all-electric sedan

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co March 15, 2017   When Lucid Motors announced its all-electric luxury sedan called ‘Air’, it was presented as a serious competitor to Tesla’s Model S, but we expected to be priced higher than Tesla’s flagship vehicle. It starts at $68,000 for a Model S 60 with 218 miles of EPA-rated range. The startup is announcing today a more aggressive pricing…

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March 26, 2017

Is it time to buy an electric vehicle?

  With more speeds and more options, it’s getting easier to own an EV in B.C. by Kirsten Rodenhizer Dustin and Amanda Batchelor bought their first electric car, a Nissan Leaf, in early 2013. At the time, the model was one of only a couple of electric vehicles (EVs) on the market. An IT professional and car aficionado, Dustin had…

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March 23, 2017

Uptown DC Fast Charge Station Offline March 28 to April 3

The Victoria EV Club received the following notice regarding the DC Fast Charging station at Uptown mall. For those needing a DC Fast charger the one located in Colwood might be a good alternate on these dates. Notice follows below: Hello Drivers, The DCFC station located at the Uptown Mall at 3440 Saanich Road, will be shut down between Tuesday, March 28…

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March 11, 2017

Tesla CTO JB Straubel at Vancouver Tech Conference

March 11, 2017 Tesla co-founder and Chief Technical Officer J.B. Straubel will be speaking at the sold-out  BC Tech Summit taking place March 13-14, 2017 in Vancouver, BC.  He is scheduled for Tuesday morning to present “Electric Vehicles and the Sustainable Energy Revolution.” From Wikipedia: Jeffrey Brian “JB” Straubel (born December 20, 1975) is part of the founding team and…

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March 11, 2017

Tesla Solar Roof: Panasonic’s involvement in the manufacturing process at Gigafactory 2

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co March 8, 2017 After the Model 3, Tesla’s ‘solar roof’ is probably the company’s most anticipated product of 2017, which brings some scrutiny to its plans for production – not unlike the Model 3’s production program. The recent release of information from Tesla and Panasonic led to some confusion over the production of the product at Gigafactory…

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March 11, 2017

Video: Emirates Electric Road Trip | Fully Charged

March 10, 2017 bobbyllew, Electrek.co   The Emirates Electric Road Trip was an amazing experience. A combination of educational exercise, motivation to open new charging stations throughout the Emirates and a wonderful tour of an incredible area of the world. The Emirates are investing more in renewables than you can literally poke a stick at. They extract huge amounts of…

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March 5, 2017

Trump to Undo Vehicle Rules That Curb Global Warming

New York Times Coral Davenport, March 3, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to begin rolling back stringent federal regulations on vehicle pollution that contributes to global warming, according to people familiar with the matter, essentially marking a U-turn to efforts to force the American auto industry to produce more electric cars. The announcement — which is expected…

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