You could say that all three of this week’s featured posts are great news for supporters of electric vehicles and very bad news for car dealerships hoping to sustain interest in the internal combustion engine. When it comes to electric vehicles, it’s clear that kids “get” it. A couple of years ago, I walked the Christmas Lights parade route as…
Virtually every member of the general public I meet at the car shows the VEVC attends expresses the desire to make their next car an EV. When questioned on how soon that might be, the answer is invariably related to the Electric Car Myth that they’re too expensive. Even considering the purchase rebates and Scrap-it potential a new EV buyer…
Sustainability website “Transport and Environment” this week reported that since the year 2000 automobile manufacturers have cheated European drivers out of 150 billion Euros ($227 Billion Canadian) for the additional fuel they burned due to widespread manipulation of fuel efficiency tests. In 2017 alone, this gaming of the system not only cost drivers money but drove up carbon emissions by…
GM releases Canadian pricing for all-electric, Tesla-fighting Bolt EV Jordan Chittley The Globe and Mail The all-electric Chevrolet Bolt will cost $42,795 plus a $1,600 destination freight charge in Canada, General Motors announced Tuesday. However, after all applicable rebates in Ontario, that price is $31,434 plus freight on the base model. The Bolt will be the most affordable long-range electric…
Mitsubishi Motors admits falsifying fuel economy test Jim Henshaw, VEVC board member, Blog: Legion of Decency Mitsubishi Motors has admitted falsifying fuel economy data for more than 600,000 vehicles sold in Japan. Tire pressure figures were falsified by employees to flatter mileage rates, the company said. Almost 470,000 vehicles that Mitsubishi made for Nissan were affected and the issue…
What a Wonderful World With David Attenborough Link provided by Steve O’Dell
Atlas, The Next Generation via: YouTube, Feb 23, 2016 A new version of Atlas, designed to by Boston Dynamics to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the…
Packing up because of climate change By John D. Sutter, CNN, February 25, 2016 Miami Beach, Florida (CNN) Dan Kipnis — a retired fishing captain on Miami Beach — has a home office so cluttered with sea creatures that it feels like a drained aquarium. There’s a dead salmon stuck to the wall, a marlin above the bookshelf. A taxidermic bat…
e NV200 Arriving Very Soon Mandu Goebl, General Sales Manager at Victoria’s Campus Nissan in an interview last night confirmed the e-NV200 100% electric minivan is arriving very soon. Campus Nissan is one of the first dealers to be approved and certified in BC to sell the minivan in Victoria. Many have already put down a deposit to be the first to…
Tesla Autopilot: The 10 Most Important Things by John Voelcker, Green Car Reports Tesla Motors is now rolling out its much-awaited “Autopilot” software for the Model S electric car, and it has revealed a number of things about how the autonomous driving system is intended to work. While an explanatory conference call on Wednesday afternoon lasted less than an hour, Tesla CEO Elon…
