This morning the British Columbia Utilities Commission received approval from the Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources to make electric vehicle charging service providers, who are not otherwise public utilities, as well as landlords and strata corporations, exempt from Part 3 of the Utilities Commission Act. The exemption applies to landlords, strata corporations, private companies and parkade owners. With…
Canada’s Federal Budget took its first tentative steps to supporting the transition to electric vehicles in this week’s budget allocating $435 Million over the next five years to cleaner transportation options. $300 Million of that total will be in the form of a $5,000 rebate for the purchase of a new electric vehicle under a maximum retail price of $45,000….
General Motors has announced a $300 million investment to produce a new Chevrolet electric vehicle that will be based off an “advanced version” of the Bolt EV architecture. The investment is directly targetted for GM’s Orion Township, Mich. plant, where the Bolt is manufactured. GM predicts the new vehicle build will create 400 new jobs. Although no details on what…
With complaints over charging etiquette (EV drivers misusing charging stations) increasing across the South Island, the Victoria EV Club has stepped up with a simple but effective way of keeping everybody happy. The club has received its first shipment of charging tags that drivers can leave on their cars to let other drivers know whether they are “necessity” or “opportunity”…
Last night, a clearly ebullient Elon Musk expanded the Tesla fleet by introducing the much anticipated “Model Y”. The seventh vehicle to be produced by the company in its eleven year life is an electric compact SUV with a 300 mile range and 7 passenger capacity. Built on the proven Model 3 platform, the significantly taller Model Y with its…
With the coming of Spring comes the arrival of Island Electric Car Shows and the first one up is also brand new to the local scene. The Transition Sooke Speaker Series in partnership with Emotive and the Victoria EV Club will be presenting the premiere “Electric Vehicle Extravaganza” at Sooke’s Edward Milne Community School on Saturday March 23rd from 2:30…
One of the major benefits of owning an electric car is how little maintenance it requires and the remarkable decline in the amount of money owners have to shell out to keep it on the road. But that inevitable comparison of an average 20 moving parts in an electric car to 20,000 in ICE vehicles lulls some owners into thinking…
Porsche initially chose to dip its toes into the EV market by manufacturing an initial run of 20,000 units of its sporty new Taycan. However, by the time the company arrived at the Geneva Motor Show this week, all 20,000 of those vehicles had been pre-ordered by eager European customers. So Porsche has decided to double it’s 2019 production of…
Elon Musk clearly puts no adage in the ancient warning to — “Beware the Ides of March!” because he’s chosen next Thursday to unveil Tesla’s Model Y at the company’s Hawthorne Design Museum.. But it’s suspected to be an SUV crossover combining the features of the Model 3 and the Model X — with a rear hatchback. Tesla has previously…
The transition from driving an ICE car and one powered solely by electricity is both effortless and endlessly confusing. Effortless, because all you have to do is plug in the car. Confusing, because everybody gives you a different set of rules for doing that. Every time EV drivers gather, the discussion eventually turns to — “Just what’s the best way…
