We have to do better. And we can’t let the fossil fuel industry continue to get in the way of progress, as they clearly did on Friday at the Vancouver, BC climate solutions conference.
The first 10 heavy duty battery electric buses (BEBs) will be deployed in Victoria sometime in 2020/2021. Over the course of the next seven years, BC Transit will gradually increase the proportion of eBuses in its fleet until all new purchases are electric.
On May 29, 2019 the British Columbia government passed the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act (ZEVA). This legislation requires all new light-duty vehicles like cars and trucks sold there to be zero emissions vehicles by 2040. A representative of the B.C. Energy, Mines and Petroleum division answered some questions about the development for CleanTechnica.
A Canadian Tesla enthusiast reported on Sunday that he recently sent an email to his Tesla rep in Vancouver to inquire about consumer interest there and the Tesla rep told him the Vancouver store had taken in approximately 800 orders in the past week. But the most interesting thing was this customer’s comparison to a Nissan LEAF order.
Carbon Engineering will produce transportation fuels that cost 18-25 times more and have 22-35 the CO2e emissions as just using electricity in an EV
Carbon Engineering is planning to build high-cost and comparatively high-emission transportation fuels by combining their expensive CO2 with hydrogen which they will get via expensive electrolysis.
Colorado governor Jared Polis has continued the policies of his predecessor by pushing forward with a plan to join the ZEV policies of the California Air Resources Board. The plan could go into effect by the end of this year.
British Columbia introduced a revenue neutral price on carbon a decade ago. The plan is reducing carbon emissions and gaining political support. Should it be part of a Green New Deal in the United States?
There’s so much cleantech news to cover that we generally have hundreds of stories on our “story sheet” that we’re never able to cover. In the coming days, we’ll be rolling out a couple of strategies to help deal with our backlog. Yep, this #NewsParty format is one of those.
One of CleanTechnica’s street team (that’s you guys, our readers) just spotted a truck full of Tesla Model 3s destined for one of the automaker’s three shops in Vancouver, according to the delivery stickers. The spy shots come from Chinatown, Vancouver.
