Submitted by Marc Semail, VEVC Forum Monitor Published by Tyler Hamilton, Special to TVO.org, Jun 24, 2016 Electric vehicle showroom There is a tiny nugget buried in the Ontario climate plan released earlier this month, and while few noticed, it could significantly boost electric vehicle awareness and sales in Canada’s largest automotive market. According to the climate plan, “Ontario will work…
by Martin Webb, VEVC Reviewer The Ford Focus EV was introduced in late 2011, but was limited to fleet sales. In 2012, the Focus EV became available to limited markets throughout the US, starting with California and New York. Limited Supply Getting to see one up close and personal is not such a simple task, even though it is not…
Last week, Ontario government announced its Five-Year Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) 2016-2020. In this CCAP, there are various Action areas such as : transportation, building and homes, land-use planning, industry and business, collaboration with indigenous communities, research and development, government and agriculture, forest & land. Ontario government to electrify its vehicle fleet Eric Carrière, June 13, 2016, Time to Electrify More details…
Germany: All new cars emissions free by 2030 Fred Lambert, Electrek, June 14, 2016 It looks like Germany is about to become the first major country to set an official deadline for a ban on gas-powered cars. India recently confirmed that it is evaluating a scheme for all its fleet to be electric by 2030 and both the Dutch government and the Norwegian government are…
Musk’s manufacturing math: Cars should be able to exit the factory at walking speed Posted June 8, 2016 by Charles Morris, Chargedevs.com As it faces a huge pile of orders for Model 3, Tesla’s new challenge is not to build great cars (it’s already proven it can do that), but to build great cars quickly, in large volume. Along the…
LAPD will get 100 BMW i3 electric cars Danny King, Autoblog BMW of North America said Wednesday that it will supply the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) with 100 BMW i3 electric vehicles. Still, anyone hoping to see those oddly shaped vehicles in hot pursuit along Southern California’s streets will have to wait. That’s because the cars will be used…
Paul Hudson , Deputy Editor, Telegraph Cars June 10, 2016 110 Year old American-Built Electric Cars For Sale The 1907 Victor High Wheel Runabout (left) and 1906 Pope Waverley Victoria Phaeton (right) are coming up for sale at auction at Brooklands [Museum, Surrey, England]. Both are now incredibly rare, but electric propulsion was considered a sufficiently viable proposition in the early years…
Why do they love electric cars at the Arctic Circle? Chris Gibson, BBC News Technology of Business reporter 10 June 2016 Why? Because Norway, it seems, is simply nuts about electric cars. Tromso, a Norwegian city known as the “Gateway to the Arctic”, receives no sunlight for two months of the year. Yet this remote, beautiful, snowy city is the…
Robert Llewellyn, Fully Charged, June 7, 2016 Kudos to Terrance Berscheid & James Locke for the link A common misconception is that electric cars charged from the grid, where we burn coal to generate electricity, are actually dirtier than petrol or diesel. Guess what. It’s nonsense. More info here.
BC funds electric fleet operators The Province is providing $600,000 under the Clean Energy Vehicle (CEV) Program to encourage and accelerate the use of electric vehicles in British Columbia’s public and private fleets and reduce greenhouse gases. British Columbia has the largest public charging infrastructure network in Canada, as well as the highest per capita adoption of electric vehicles. This…
