Merry Christmas Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year Thank you all for helping our revolution to a sustainable energy future. Your Victoria EV Club executive team. Manfred Wissemann, President Volvo Electric Bus – 2015
BC EV Announcement Deferred The ministry of transportation has deferred the announcement. Hopefully, because they might need more time to include a more comprehensive package. We are very sorry you have to cancel your travel plans from the Mainland, up-Island as well as the Gulf Islands. But, all for a good cause and the government must have good reasons to…
Nissan conducts first self-driving car tests Relaxnews Published Friday, October 30, 2015 7:49AM EDT On Thursday Nissan conducted its first self-driving car tests on highways and on inner city roads with the ultimate aim of taking what are still very much prototype technologies and making them standard features by 2020. Like Toyota’s Highway Teammate concept and Tesla’s recently rolled-out Autopilot…
BC Electric Vehicle Owners To Attend Honourable Todd Stone, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, invites Electric Vehicle owners to attend. Next week, an important announcement in front of the BC Legislature will be made with the news media, members of the legislature and EV owners in attendance. I am asking all EV owners to consider attending this event to show Canada how far we have come in…
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…
Zero Motorcycle MEET THE RIDERS WHO BETTER TO TELL THE STORY Every Zero Motorcycles rider has stories to tell about their first ride on a Zero, about people who enthusiastically ask them questions while stopped at a traffic light, the money they save on gas or the sublime feeling they get whenever they hop on their Zero. Words, photos and…
VW From Scandal To Electric By Jordan Golson, Gear VW Plans to Recover From Its Scandal by Going Electric NOW THAT THE Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal is a month old, the new VW Brand Board of Management is beginning to publicly discuss its plans for the future—and how they’ve changed. Step one: Use emission control systems that actually control emissions. Step…
The Truth Leaked Out of City Hall VLC TWEET has been noticed by the City of Saanich. A re-tweet below confirming adoption of 100% electric cars. @LovemyLEAF Not yet, but Saanich adding 4 EVs (for total of 9) and Victoria adding 9 EVs. Hope to have them by January 2016. There are also rumors to replace all “clean diesel” buses by BYD 100%…
e Apple Project Titan Could Apple be creating a self-driving car? by Zaran Tarapore Above: Apple’s Project Titan electric car possible concept design No one seems to know for sure what the new self driving Apple electric car will look like. eApple or iCar would be cool names regardless of the final choices. According to the latest MacRumors’ report by Juli Clover: Apple…
The $100 ECO AWARD CHEQUE Program Manfred Wissemann, founding President of the Victoria LEAF Club has received a $300 cheque from a sponsor dealer: Campus Nissan’s sales manager Mandu Goebl. This will be used to give out $100 ECO AWARD CHEQUES to any one who purchases or refers us to someone resulting in a consequent sale. See here for details and VLC…
