Electric Vehicle Extravaganza at Earth Day 2017

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…

Join VEVC at Earth Day Festival and Sustainability Showcase

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:…

Canada’s oil industry ponders its fate as the threat of electric cars looms in the rearview mirror

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…

Analyst warns of Tesla’s Autopilot machine learning potentially rendering all other cars obsolete

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…

Autonomous Nissan LEAF – Fully Charged Video

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

Tesla discloses that Chinese holding firm Tencent acquired a total 5% stake in the company

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…