April 22nd, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Starting May 1, electric cars and plug-in hybrid cars will be eligible for a government incentive of up to $5,0000 Canadian. The rebate also applies to leased cars, with some conditions.
April 5th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
Canada's newly released report, Canada’s Changing Climate Report, comes just months after the NOAA’s annual executive summary of ongoing changes regarding land, ice, and ocean throughout the Arctic during the 2018 calendar year
March 26th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Lion Electric is adding a new full electric class 8 truck to its lineup, which is available with up to 400 kilometers of range per charge. The new Lion8 brings Lion Electric's experience from developing electric transit and electric school buses to bear on a larger vehicle class designed for urban deliveries
March 26th, 2019 | by Joshua S Hill
Sweden, Switzerland, and Norway lead a host of European countries judged by the World Economic Forum as those most ready for the global energy transition, while Canada, Australia, and South Korea are the only Advanced Economies performing well below the average, due primarily to poor environmental sustainability policies.
March 7th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
Wind farms aren't universally accepted by communities where they are being established. It's important to provide care and feeding to those communities, to provide them the immunization that they often require from those irrationally or ideologically opposed to wind energy and to assist them in healing breaches that occur. Wind farms bring change, and change is often difficult
March 4th, 2019 | by Jonny Tiernan
In January of 2019, Canada officially joined the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), becoming the 160th member of the global intergovernmental organization. This is an important development, showing the commitment that Canada is making to climate action and to the global energiewende
January 26th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
The electric vehicle (EV) industry was booming in 2018. It was the most booming year of a booming decade for EVs. Below is a long, long rundown of notables changes in the industry in
January 11th, 2019 | by Joshua S Hill
In what seems like news that has come a decade late, the International Renewable Energy Agency announced on Wednesday that Canada has finally become a member, becoming the Agency's 160th member
December 31st, 2018 | by Jake Richardson
For all of 2018, the total EV sales in Canada may exceed the previous three years combined. The top seller among Canadian EVs for the Q3 was the Tesla Model 3. In second and third place were the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt
December 28th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, which has long been a very popular plug-in vehicle in Europe, has already set a sales record in Canada after its relatively recent introduction there. Mitsubishi has already sold over 5,000 Outlander PHEVs in the northerly country. That's the first time ever that a plug-in hybrid has scored over 5,000 sales in one year in Canada
December 12th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Canada lead the world when it comes to implementing measures to mitigate climate change, according to new research published earlier this month at the UN climate change conference, COP24, currently underway in Katowice, Poland, which assessed 25 countries that account for 80% of the world's population
December 12th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
Electric bikes make everyone healthier. They reduce the societal subsidy for driving cars. They increase productivity. They increase the economy. They reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Cities should embrace them
December 9th, 2018 | by Sponsored Content
For David Berliner, the thirty-one-year-old founder of CoPower, fighting climate change means figuring out the financing. “Cutting-edge cleantech is exciting, but the reality is that the basic technology needed to make deep emissions cuts is already here.”
December 8th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
Older, male, wealthier and in North America for the most part. Strongly identifying as city dwellers, not rural dwellers. Not a surprising response, but a useful one
November 25th, 2018 | by Sponsored Content
With temperatures gradually dropping, it’s time to think about how the cold will affect your EV charging. The FLO Home Level 2 charging station will ensure you leave each morning fully charged, so you can make the most of your range all winter
November 16th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
A new report published this week has determined that 82% of the G20's energy supply is still sourced from fossil fuels and none of the countries' climate pledges are on a 1.5˚C-compatible pathway, contributing to a current trend which will see global warming of 3.2˚C unless G20 nations halve their emissions by
November 9th, 2018 | by Tina Casey
Add the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline to the growing pile of campaign promises that President* Trump has yet to keep
November 1st, 2018 | by The Beam
“To most, the actions of the government are cynical and self-interested.”
October 31st, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
There are only 16 countries that have currently set domestic targets for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions that are ambitious enough to be considered in line with their pledged contributions to the Paris Agreement, according to new research published this week
October 28th, 2018 | by Sponsored Content
The FLO Family of Companies has been manufacturing charging stations for about 10 years, and today operate the largest EV charging network across Canada. They have recently partnered with ChargePoint and now FLO members can roam effortlessly between the two networks across North America. And FLO’s home charging stations have just launched in the US for EV charging at home.
October 25th, 2018 | by Carolyn Fortuna
The HFW center gained approval from the province to install a solar project and sell energy generated from it to Nova Scotia Power. We reached out to HFW founder and director Hope Swinimer for an interview to learn more about the project and the interconnections between renewable energy and wildlife protection
October 21st, 2018 | by Jose Pontes
The Bolt EV was GM’s natural follow-up to the Volt's pioneering steps into electromobility. With the compact plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) market covered with the Volt, it was time for GM to go after the fully electric (BEV) subcompact segment, and for that, GM teamed up with Korea's LG. The result was a small yet space-efficient EV with a big, flat roller-skate battery between the wheels and a powerful motor. It was GM's first BEV-dedicated platform
October 21st, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Writing for Canada's National Post, columnist Lawrence Solomon took fossil fuel allegiance and climate change denial to a new level, one bereft of dignity and intellectual integrity, and supported only by lies, lies, and more lies
September 30th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
The report is another data point showing that a family's total cost of ownership of electric cars is better than for gasoline or diesel vehicles. And with all of the other benefits — including health, much lower greenhouse gas emissions and typically greater safety — it's not hard to see that the shift to electric cars will only accelerate
