Tag: Electric Vehicles
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Whistler Beer Festival Via Nissan Leaf
My EV road trip is now in progress. I am in a Nissan Leaf headed to Whistler to take part in the beer festival. I will update as we progress. For now, here is the data as we leave home: That is 139 km of range in the batteries as we leave. And 83% charged.…
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Our Failed Electric Vehicle Trip Up the Fraser Canyon
A few weeks ago I posted about a plan to drive up the Fraser Canyon in my friend’s Nissan Leaf – an all electric vehicle. Well, as I said in my update right in that post, our EV trip up the Fraser Canyon did not happen. Not because of lack of interest or willingness, only…
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Traveling the Scenic 7 and the Fraser Canyon by Electric Vehicle
1945hr update – note to self. Don't plan an EV trip with a guy who plans to (literally) climb a mountain the same day as you want to drive the Scenic 7. My driver is still stuck on the road so we'll have to postpone this trip for the time being. 1815hr update – My…
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Electric Vehicles Vs Gas Powered Vehicles
Seeing as I am quite seriously considering the purchase of an electric vehicle, I decided to do some cost comparisons of electric vehicles to comparable gas powered vehicles. The four specific vehicles I chose to compare ON PAPER (I did NOT drive any of these vehicles – this is strictly a numbers comparison) were the: Mercedes…
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Vlog #3; Where to Install EV Charging Stations
My third attempt at vlogging in which I give businesses some great advice to help them grow their business by installing electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. https://youtu.be/6HeGL5bkZ-k EV Charging stations. Pretty clever idea I share here.
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Electric Vehicles Part Two
Today’s post is a follow up to yesterday’s post about my interest in purchasing an electric vehicle such as a Nissan Leaf. First, it is important to make a distinction between some of the electric vehicles that are on the market. Possibly the most talked about EV is the Tesla. But let’s be realistic –…
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Electric Vehicles – Nissan Leaf
I am seriously considering the purchase of an electric vehicle and, as soon as I said those words to my friends they began to send me articles explaining how impractical and totally inadequate electric vehicles are. As a first step towards purchasing electric vehicles, this weekend I took one out for a test drive. Apparently…
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The All-Electric Zero Motorcycle Test Ride
A good buddy and I, both of us avid motorcyclists, popped into the 2nd Gear Motorcycle shop to test ride the all-electric Zero Motorcycle. Kent Aubichon, Zero Motorcycles Canadian sales manager let us take the bike out for a little ride around the Coquitlam neighbourhood. Here is a little video I shot of my impressions…
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The New Nissan Leaf Hits BC; Day 3 NaBloPoMo
A good buddy of mine received his new Nissan Leaf, the first all-electric production vehicle a couple of days ago. I asked him to write a quick blurb about what his first day of owning an electric vehicle was like. Here is what he had to say… Today we picked up our new Nissan LEAF…