2024 Annual General Meeting – Minutes

The 8th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the VICTORIA ELECTRIC VEHICLE ASSOCIATION was held on Sunday October 20, 2024 1:00 PM via Zoom. Table of Board members 1. Call to Order 1:10 PM 2. Confirmation of quorum of board members (5/7). 3. The President introduced the board members to the Zoom participants: Outgoing DirectorHeather Kellington; David Grove President Emeritus; Julian Sale Director;…

VicEVA Joins Other BC Associations Listing Priorities for the Provincial Election

British Columbia’s Electric Vehicle Associations have developed a list of 10 priorities in advancing and improving the province’s electric transportation future. The attached document has been provided to all parties in the upcoming election. For additional information or an interview from one of the participating associations, please respond to this email at: info@victoriaevassociation.comThe Electric Vehicle Associations and Owner Groups of British…

Spring EV Count

The Spring EV Count is an upcoming event on May 17 from 6:30 am to 9 am, where volunteers will be stationed around the city to carry out the annual count of electric vehicles. This event plays a crucial role in understanding the trend of electric vehicle usage in the city. Make sure to wave at our volunteers when you…

2023 Federal Budget

Listen Here This week the Federal Budget and Canada’s huge investment in green energy initiatives was announced . May 31st, CFAX news director Ryan Price spoke with the VicEVA President Glenn Garry for an in depth discussion on the impact of the new policies on Canadian industries as well as electric cars. Read More Want to learn more about the…

GM to End ICE Production

Following up on its recent announcements of new battery EV models, General Motors this week provided a time-line to ending production of internal combustion engines. GM says that it will offer 30 all-electric models globally by 2025, and 40% of the company’s U.S. models will be battery electric vehicles by the end of 2025 and it will completely purge tailpipe…

A Gathering of Royalty

More positive EV news to report this week, as the Victoria Electric Vehicle Club hosted its first-ever women’s EV gathering. “DEVas” — women who are interested in EVs and those who already own and love their EV —were all invited to a very special dinner on Tuesday, October 1st.    Attendees thoroughly enjoyed making new connections while sampling from the…

EVs And Rural BC

It’s been a few years since Salt Spring Island declared itself the EV Capital of Canada. And despite the rapid growth since then of electric vehicle ownership on Vancouver Island and the lower mainland, there’s still a perception out there that EVs garner limited interest on the vast interior of British Columbia. This week an investigative team from the Canadian…

How To Charge An Electric Car

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…

One Step Plug & Charge Arrives

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…

The Impending Big Auto/Oil Implosion

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…