Yesterday’s Earth Day was an absolute success! Creatively United for the Planet’s annual United Sustainability Showcase on Earth Day was held at the Royal BC Museum in downtown Victoria Saturday. Motorize Auto Direct led the Electric Vehicle & Bike Extravaganza outside the museum by displaying many makes of electric cars, electric motorcycles and bikes. Together with Emotive BC, Motorize provided…
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co April 9, 2017 The attention around Tesla’s solar products is mostly focused on its solar roof tiles, but those address only a new segment in the market – the new roof segment. Tesla is also trying to innovate for homeowners who don’t need a new roof, but who still want to generate their own solar energy. This…
Join the Victoria Electric Vehicle Club at the Creatively United for the Planet’s Earth Day Festival, Saturday April 22, 2017, 10 am to 5 pm, at the Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, BC. Admission to the festival is free (outdoors and Clifford Carl Hall). Some of the participants in the Electric Vehicle & Bike Extravaganza are: Victoria Electric Vehicle Club:…
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co April 8, 2017 The first sightings of Tesla Model 3 release candidates on public roads started this week after the Elon Musk released the first official images last month. We had so far only seen a black vehicle, but it looks like Tesla is expanding its fleet for testing on public roads with a new blue…
Geoffrey Morgan, April 3, 2017, Financial Post CALGARY – Canada’s energy industry gathered at a petroleum museum Monday to consider how electric cars threaten oil, the country’s biggest export, especially if battery-powered cars make up 50 per cent of vehicles on the road by 2050 as projected. Peter Tertzakian, executive director of ARC Energy Research Institute — which organized the event…
March 28, 2017 Fred Lambert, Electrek.co Before introducing the second generation Autopilot hardware, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that once the first truly self-driving car is available, all other vehicles without the technology will have a “negative value”. Echoing the idea, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said this week that they started warning their clients that if Tesla is successful in enabling…
March 21, 2017 Josh Constine, Techcrunch.com Gas is the biggest cost for airlines. The easiest way to reduce these costs? Don’t use gas at all. That was the pitch from Wright Electric, a startup building a commercial passenger plane that runs on batteries and can handle flights under 300 miles. These short-haul trips make up 30 percent of all flights…
Bobby Llewelyn, Electrek.co March 30, 2017 Our first ride in a fully autonomous car on public roads in the UK. Nissan very kindly arranged this experience, I’d particularly like to that Tetsuya Iijima, who is ‘not’ driving the car, he had been showing this vehicle to numerous journalists before we arrived but still showed great enthusiasm. Original article source
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co March 28, 2017 Tesla’s stock was up 3% this morning in pre-market trading after the company disclosed through a SEC filing that Tencent, a giant Chinese holding firm, has been accumulating stock in the electric car company for a total 5% passive stake worth over $2.2 billion at the current price. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he…
