Oak Bay Collector Car Festival . About 250 / 300 vehicles . Police crowd estimate 15000 (3 changes of 5,000 people ) Name . Oak Bay Collector Car Festival When . Sunday August 9 th. 2015 Time . 8 a m til 3.30 pm . Location . Oak Bay Village Victoria . Event Type . Open Show. Registration . On…
SSI EV SHOW Schedule By Jim Standen There are many B&B’s on SSI and I would recommend checking out the Chamber of Commerce listings: http://www.saltspringtourism.com/accommodations-2/. Salt Spring Inn, Hedgerow B&B and Gatehouse B&B have recently installed Level II chargers. For those on a “Tesla” budget, there is Hastings house, also close to theFriday evening event. Hi All, I have booked…
New VLC Sponsor VLC welcomes Julian Sale of Motorize Auto Direct inc. as one of our sponsors. Julian brings in used US Nissan LEAFs from the US as does Campus Nissan and makes them available to the public at competitive pricing. Nissan of Canada stands behind the manufacturers warranties through our local LEAF certified local Campus Nissan service provider. Julian…
EVs only on Salt Spring Island EVs only on Salt Spring Island you say? Not quite. Gas delivery to Salt Spring Island may stop altogether if the rate of electric car and solar charging adoption continues at this current pace. Electric cars are coming into Victoria by the truckload and Islanders can’t wait to get their hands on an electric…
Used Nissan Leaf Should I Buy A Used Nissan Leaf (Or Another Electric Car)? About 15 million people buy a new vehicle in the U.S. each year, on average–but almost 40 million buy used cars in that same year. Modern electric cars have been sold in the U.S. since December 2010. Not surprisingly, they’re started to show up on used-car…
Clean Air Day Event Report 2015 The Ministry of Environment’s employees were surprised to see so many TESLAs and LEAFs at VLC’s Clean Air Day Event. They could not believe their luck of actually being allowed to drive an electric car themselves. Getting ready for more climate action. Employees were lucky we had a number of TESLAs and LEAFs for…
Tesla’s Model III 200 miles per charge Tesla’s Model III goes 200 miles per charge and costs $35,000P “I think we’re going to try to do something more radical,” says Elon Musk, creator of Tesla Motors, whose charging stations will power your Tesla for free, forever. This one, the Model III could be available in Read more
EV-Saanich-Sooke-Qualicum Beach Thank you Jim Hindson, Terrance Berscheid, Lisa Locke, Arno Keinonen, Harold Bird, and a special thanks to Sydney Locke, our youngest electric car advocate, of our special delegation to the “Sooke Emergency Conference” and the Qualicum Beach “Flourishing In A Green Economy” Sydney’s bright smile in a VLC T-shirt must have convinced many to go electric. :) Blurred…
Parksville/Qualicum EV Road Trip Flourishing In A Green Economy Dear VLC Members, Jim Hindson, VLC Event Organizer has provided us with an itinerary below. It is not to late to call Jim and book a trip in an EV to Parksville /Qualicum. There are six of us booked thus far including one Tesla. Below are our group rates for the…
Vancouver Auto Show 2015 Electric Avenue sounds really nice, 100% electric cars truly saving money and the environment. Four hours of careful walking through a mass of gas cars not to miss a single electric one. An impressive site. Futuristic and maybe useful to some people. I did not see one useful family electric Van. I was looking for the…
