A special message for all Club Members about the next major EV event in Victoria arrived in our inbox this week. We Hope you’ll all take the time to be part of a very special day. Hi Victoria area EV owners! Come out to DriveElectricVictoria2018! Our annual EV Ride’n’Drive! Sunday, September 9th, at UVic. Parking Lot #10 (enter off Gordon…
Join us at the Esquimalt Cars Rods and Rides show at Archie Browning Parking lot this Saturday from 10am to 2pm. Electric Avenue will feature the VEVC tent, many EVs, and VEVC members to answer questions and show their cars. Come join us!
Lisa Locke, VEVC Editor August 7, 2017 VEVC Member and fellow EV owner Jeremy Janzen is organizing the Victoria portion of National Drive Electric Week. This is a nationwide celebration to heighten awareness of today’s widespread availability and benefits of all-electric cars, trucks, motorcycles, and more. They are fun to drive, are less expensive and more convenient to fuel than…
Karin Larsen, CBC News June 19, 2017 In most places the electric car revolution is still a long-term dream — but not on Salt Spring Island. There, local residents have taken to emission-cutting EVs (electric vehicles) in such a big way that one person believes the island can now lay claim to the title “electric car capital of Canada.” “We drink a lot of coffee…
On July 1 2017, 9 am at Angelers Boat Ramp, 75 Dallas Road, Victoria, Buddy Boyd and Barb Hetherington will be dipping the wheels of their all- electric Chevrolet Bolt in the Pacific waters as they launch a low impact road trip across Canada visiting communities along the way to promote Zero Waste and zero emission transportation. Mayor Lisa Helps…
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, June 9, 2017 Hyundai is having a lot of success with the all-electric version of the Ioniq EV, as we anticipated in our review. So much, that it now has production constraints, which it plans to solve within the next few months. The problem is reportedly related to the LG Chem battery pack supply and the Korean automaker now…
Join the Victoria Electric Vehicle Club at the Creatively United for the Planet’s Earth Day Festival, Saturday April 22, 2017, 10 am to 5 pm, at the Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, BC. Admission to the festival is free (outdoors and Clifford Carl Hall). Some of the participants in the Electric Vehicle & Bike Extravaganza are: Victoria Electric Vehicle Club:…
March 21, 2017 Josh Constine, Techcrunch.com Gas is the biggest cost for airlines. The easiest way to reduce these costs? Don’t use gas at all. That was the pitch from Wright Electric, a startup building a commercial passenger plane that runs on batteries and can handle flights under 300 miles. These short-haul trips make up 30 percent of all flights…
Electric Cars Report During the 87th Geneva Motor Show, Airbus and Italdesign world- premiered Pop.Up, the first modular, fully electric, zero emission concept vehicle system designed to relieve traffic congestion in crowded megacities. Pop.Up envisages a modular system for multi-modal transportation that makes full use of both ground and airspace. The feasible concept is the result of Italdesign and Airbus’ joint reflection on how to address…
Anton Wahlman, Seeing Alpha March 16, 2017 VW’s electrification plans consist of three main steps: (1) Current and refreshed cars, (2) two flagships from Audi/Porsche, and (3) an all-new platform. The most interesting of these is naturally the third and final step: The all-new 100% electric platform. Pilot production of this “MEB” platform starts around mid-2019 and customer volume production…
