First City In Canada To Allow Electric Cars On The Streets
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The City of Oak Bay, just a hop away from Victoria, is expected to become the first Canadian city to unleash slow-moving electric cars onto its streets.
For a town not exactly known for its land-speed records, this speedy push to go electric underscores the fact that conditions may finally be ripe for an electric-car comeback.
"We're trying to say let's not block new technology. Let's allow new technology to be encouraged. And we're not going to stand in its way,'" said Oak Bay Mayor Christopher Causton.
The draft bylaw, which is expected to pass before council tomorrow, will allow low-speed electric vehicles to be driven freely throughout the mostly residential Oak Bay.
While electric vehicles have been around since the 19th century, it's taken a "perfect storm" of high gas prices, the carbon tax and concerns about global warming to save them from the brink of extinction.
The Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA) has seen membership double to 200 over the past three months, and hits to its website have tripled.
Meanwhile, B.C.'s best-known electric car converter, Randy Holmquist of Vancouver Island, says sales of electric-car conversion kits have shot up so fast he "can barely keep up."
For a town not exactly known for its land-speed records, this speedy push to go electric underscores the fact that conditions may finally be ripe for an electric-car comeback.
"We're trying to say let's not block new technology. Let's allow new technology to be encouraged. And we're not going to stand in its way,'" said Oak Bay Mayor Christopher Causton.
The draft bylaw, which is expected to pass before council tomorrow, will allow low-speed electric vehicles to be driven freely throughout the mostly residential Oak Bay.
While electric vehicles have been around since the 19th century, it's taken a "perfect storm" of high gas prices, the carbon tax and concerns about global warming to save them from the brink of extinction.
The Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA) has seen membership double to 200 over the past three months, and hits to its website have tripled.
Meanwhile, B.C.'s best-known electric car converter, Randy Holmquist of Vancouver Island, says sales of electric-car conversion kits have shot up so fast he "can barely keep up."
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- JanforGore
- 2 months ago
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How wonderful!
Get the baby boomers and the teens hooked on these slow moving babies. You'll not only see car accident rates drop, the sales would go through the roof!-
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- RichaRagini
- 2 months ago
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Its great to hear acceptance of the electric cars and we owe it to ourselves to switch to them to help the environment, although to actually help it the energy sources need to be renewable first.
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It you have not yet, Watch "Who killed the Electric Car".
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Canada didn't let slow-moving electric cars on the street? But… but the US does! Are you telling me there is a situation in which the United States is more progressive than Canada?
You, good sir, have boggled my mind. -
That's the spirit! We should close the streets of some parts of the city and make electric cars available to the population for a small fee. Some times I think I should go and do these type of business myself. I would make more money that way. People are sleeping!
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