On September 24, at 10:00 am, the BC Government will be presenting Campus Nissan, local LEAF dealer, with the Green Star Award for the highest sales of electric cars in BC. VEVC members are invited to attend. Campus Nissan sales manager attests to the positive and encouraging support of the VEVC on LEAF electric vehicle sales. “That is why I called you,”…
Uber to launch an all-electric fleet pilot project, starting with 20 Nissan LEAFs in London Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, August 31, 2016 Uber and Nissan announced today that they launched what they are referring to as “a new, major electric vehicle (EV) project”. The project starts with the trial of an all-electric fleet of 20 Nissan LEAFs in London starting in September….
The inevitability of electric buses Posted August 17, 2016 by Christian Ruoff & filed under Features, Vehicle Features. Charged EVs Electric transit buses enter the fast-follower market stage as the leaders work to remove the last barriers to adoption. Q&A with Proterra’s Ryan Popple and ABB’s Daan Nap on the state of the market and charging standards in North America…
‘The future is now’: Historic solar flight marks first round-the-world journey Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press | July 26, 2016 | Last Updated: Jul 26 3:28 PM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The world’s first round-the-world flight to be powered solely by the sun’s energy made history on Tuesday as it landed in Abu Dhabi, where it first took off…
Victoria Harbour Ferry triples its electric fleet Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist, July 26, 2016 06:00 AM Victoria Harbour Ferry will add two new zero-emission vessels to its fleet before the end of this month. The company, which put its first electric passenger vessel into the water last summer, will add two more on Saturday to carry passengers along the…
Ian Wright, Founder & CEO of Wrightspeed, and co-founder of Tesla Motors doesn’t really believe in the short term prospects for success in building an affordable passenger electric cars, which he didn’t hide even when it comes to his Tesla roots. Tesla Co-Founder Ian Wright Questions What We Should Really Be Asking About EVs Mark Kane, Inside EVs.com, July 8,…
Hanergy Solar electric cars charge while driving Derek Markham, July 5, 2016 In just a few years, we could see an electric car on the market that doesn’t need a charging station to ‘fuel up.’ The biggest apparent stumbling blocks for electric vehicles (EVs) seems to be their range – the distance that can be driven between charging – and…
Submitted by Marc Semail, VEVC Forum Monitor Published by Tamara Baluja, CBC News, Mar 29, 2016 What happens when you cross a car and a bike? That’s sort of what a Veemo is — a new electric-assist, solar-powered enclosed tricycle that might hit the streets of Vancouver as early as September. ‘It’s a very modern take on a velomobile,’ says founder of…
Norway 4th Country To Hit 100,000 Electric Car Sales May 13th, 2016 by James Ayre Clean Technica There have now been more than 100,000 plug-in electric vehicles registered in the Northern European country of Norway, the world’s leader in EV sales per capita. Considering that Norway is home to 5 million people, 100,000 represents quite an achievement [2 %] — and…
Jay Leno is apparently Hollywood’s biggest car collector with over 100 cars and over 80 motorcycles. He has his own Internet car show, Jay Leno’s Garage. He seems to have quite an appreciation for electric cars and even how they charge. His garage has even been referred to as Jay’s Green Garage. First he put a large wind turbine on…
