There’s a major event coming to Victoria and the South Island for ten days in May as the Victoria Electric Vehicle Club launches its first all-electric road rally. For 10 days, beginning May 17th and concluding Sunday May 26, entered owners of EVs will criss-cross the South Island, visiting a myriad of destinations that will qualify them for great prizes…
Volvo has begun Swedish deliveries of both its first all-electric waste and recycling truck as well as its first heavy delivery vehicle. Working with selected customers in Sweden and Germany, the Volvo FL and FE Electrics, will continue road testing under full-time working conditions prior to a larger European rollout commencing this Summer. A North American version arrives in California…
You’d think the plummeting levels of new ICE car registrations in Canada combined with a 125% increase in EVs on our roads in 2018 would be enough to convince automakers of where the market is going. For those still on the bubble, a new survey by InnovateMR about American car-buying has found that two thirds of customers would buy an…
The days of carrying multiple cards or key-fobs and hoping a charging station will take your credit card have come to an end. Hubject, a European collaboration between German automakers, charging-station manufacturer Siemens, and European charging network Innogy, and is now spreading to North American networks. Both Chargepoint and Greenlots have signed on to use Hubject’s system which allows drivers…
Sales of electric vehicles across Canada last year increased by 125% over the previous sales record set in 2017. Electric Mobility Canada’s annual assessment of the adoption of electric vehicles also indicates that by year end there were 93,091 electric vehicles on Canadian roads, a 90% increase in just 12 months. EV sales in our home province of British Columbia…
Greenpower’s CarGO Van has begun to roll off the assembly line. The all-electric, zero emission, 25-foot cargo van features a 570 cubic feet capacity and is capable of carrying a payload of up to 6,000 pounds over an operational range of up to 150 miles on a single charge. It can also be configured with either a Level 2 or…
Not long ago, the Victoria EV Club suggested to BC Politicians that one way to break the party divides on ride-sharing would be to only open market to the drivers of electric cars. They still haven’t responded. But it appears one of the industry majors was thinking the same way. The post-millennial service announced a plan to introduce “thousands” of…
Emotive will be offering EV test drives at this year’s Vancouver International Auto Show, March 19-24, 2019, and would love for VEVC Members to be a part of it! The show is Emotive’s largest event of the year and as in previous years, they’ll be engaging with attendees on the benefits of EVs and signing up participants for EV test…
Gotta say it, best ECO-Night yet. The photo above (courtesy Ted Davies) captures one small moment of the VEVC’s signature public outreach event — ECO-Night. Seconds later, the Chevy Bolt depicted (driven by Doug Wright) led a parade of EVs onto center ice at Victoria’s Save-On-Foods arena to give a cheering crowd a small taste of what the future will…
