If you’re looking for a great last minute Christmas gift or a stocking stuffer, may we suggest a couple of tickets for the Victoria Electric Vehicle Club’s sixth annual “ECO-Night. This year’s event happens on February 1, 2019 at Victoria’s Save-On-Foods arena. The concourse of the arena will be filled with the latest model EVs and environmental displays. There will…
Beginning June 1, 2019 the City of North Vancouver will require all new residential parking spots to include energized outlets capable of providing Level 2 charging or higher for EVs. Larisa Lensink, environmental sustainability specialist for the city, stated that “In the last five years, the EV landscape has changed significantly. EV sales have increased exponentially each year and in…
Although governments and Bay Street are loathe to admit it, the boom times in the oil patch and among Canada’s branch plant auto manufacturers are coming to an end. The pipeline debates, petroleum bailouts and ICE car assembly line closures will all soon be over as the country inevitably shifts to electric mobility. The video below from Tesla Times field…
BC Hydro has issued the following update regarding support for their charging system. I believe this is the service change we’ve been expecting… “We went live today with moving fast charging support to the BC Hydro call centres. The new number is being applied with stickers to all the Greenlots fast chargers over the next few days and all the…
Hard on the heels of Tesla rolling 1000 new vehicles a day from its American assembly line, comes news that it will begin shipping 3,000 Model 3 vehicles per week in Europe starting in February. Cars will arrive through the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium to fill orders for the Model 3 that were placed mere weeks ago when the…
British Columbia’s recently unveiled ZEV mandate set initial goal of having 10% of new light car and truck sales being zero-emission by 2025. Given that 15% of British Columbia’s new car sales in the first 9 months of 2018 were electric, that means the car side of the equation is in place well ahead of schedule. But we all know…
If you have ever witnessed the start of a Formula One or IndyCar race, you’ll know that it’s so loud that the earth MOVES and all the oxygen being sucked into those powerful internal combustion engines literally takes your breath away. In 2011, somebody decided to introduce the electric car to open wheel racing and race fans wondered how it…
Last week, ChargePoint announced it has raised $240 million to build enough chargers to support 2.5 million electric cars worldwide. While ChargePoint is currently the largest EV charging network, a court mandate to settle diesel emissions cheating charges has Volkswagen already building the Electrify America network to rival Tesla Superchargers. Competitors such as EVgo are also expanding and Tesla announced…
Speaking in Washington D.C. yesterday, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess revealed he is negotiating with Ford to use its US factories for EV production as well as sharing its electric car platform with the American automaker. Speculation among EV journalists is that the models built in North America would be the I.D. Crozz, the I.D. Buzz and the update of VW’s…
How many times have you left on a road trip with the nagging thought that you’ve forgotten to turn off the lights or a burner on the stove? How often have you rolled home from a winter vacation wondering if the house will be warm enough when you get there? If you’re driving a Tesla, you can now turn those…
