On Sunday August 5th, VEVC members travelled North to join EV owners from the Nanaimo, Parksville and Qualicum area to provide the first mass EV exhibit at the Shriners Annual Show and Shine Car Show, the largest Summer gathering of new and classic cars on Vancouver Island. Under sunny skies, thousands of car enthusiasts flocked to our exhibit, far outnumbering…
Let’s face it. The most creative people in the world aren’t artists, writers or composers. They’re bean counters. A good accountant or statistician can make numbers sing or dance and add up however they want. And in the ongoing campaign to denigrate Electric cars, playing with numbers has created one of the great EV myths – that electric cars are…
Nissan has issued a press release claiming the next-gen Leaf has become the best-selling all-electric vehicle in Europe with 18,000 registered deliveries and 37,000 pending orders since the model debuted in October of 2017. This not only reveals that the new Leaf is selling better in Europe than North America, where numbers total about 1/3 of the European sales, but…
At its monthly Board Meeting on July 14th, 2018, the Victoria Electric Vehicle Club appointed two new members, bid farewell to two more and re-structured its executive. Lisa Locke departs the board for a two year Jansky Fellowship at the National Radio Astronomical Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jim Henshaw steps down to concentrate on event organization for the club as…
There are a lot of myths out there about electric cars. Half truths and urban legends given enough coverage in the media to cause many people to reconsider buying an emission free vehicle. This week we begin a series of myth-busting articles to reveal the reality of electric vehicle ownership. And we’ll begin with the one myth that continually makes…
