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…
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%…
Victoria Saanich Fleet Cars All Electric Where there is smoke there is fire. Rumors have it Victoria and Saanich signed a deal to scrap all its diesel and gas fleet cars and switch to 100% electric. VLC welcomes this move, if true, to sustainable energy that may be the beginning of cleaning up our cities of harmful diesel and gas…
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…
Volkswagen’s “Hippie Van” Comeback is Officially Confirmed Volkswagen 100% Electric Camper Bus 100% electric vehicle! No gas! No tail pipes! The new Volkswagen Electric Camper Bus is a 100% electric camper bus with a choice of 400 or 500 km (250 or 310 mile) range. Good news surfaced for the Kombi fanatics when it was officially confirmed that the microbus is…
Esquimalt Celebration of Lights Saturday September 12th is our 4th annual event I hope the VLC members will be able to attend. This year our feature attraction is the Ashton Military Museum Vehicles. The used to have an army base at Macaulay Point, so I thought I would bring the army back! Cars, Rods & Rides – fredwiss@gmail.com – Gmail
Thanks a Billion This is a must see, click here to watch the video. Congratulations to Nissan of Japan for their gift to the world of a better environment and to everyone involved making the LEAF a reality. All Electric car owners are joining Nissan in taking the first steps to reduce our dependence on gas and moving towards the use of clean alternatives such as hydro and solar…
