Victoria Electric Vehicle Association

10/01/2026

Want to know more about making the best use of electricity at home?

Victoria Electric Vehicle Association and Shift Energy Group got together online to look at two related topics;

A) Home Batteries, and;
B) Electric Vehicle to Home/Load.

Steve Unger from Shift leads us though what considerations may lead one to install home batteries and just how far you can use your EV's batteries to provide power in an emergency.

Have you chose home battery backup or used your EV to power things at home?

https://youtu.be/IQq2OcCAWBk?si=02BpxkbPa2QaILUE

Enjoy!

A discussion on home batteries and using them to augment solar syst...

09/27/2026

Don't miss this great online event!

Join Shift and the Victoria Electric Vehicle Association for an upcoming webinar exploring home battery storage, solar, and Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) technology.

Hear from Steve Unger, Lead of Microgrid Development at Shift and battery storage expert, as he covers:

🔋 How battery storage works with solar
⚡ Why batteries are becoming increasingly relevant in B.C.
💲 Costs, incentives, and available options
🏠 When battery storage might make sense for your home

VEVA will also share an update on V2H technology, followed by a live Q&A with Steve and the VEVA team.

Join us live, no registration required!

📅 September 29, 2026
⏰ 12:00 p.m. PT
💻 Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82602036650?pwd=3yr6ERQVhDMHF4V5SnXTrTryiBGEi8.1

09/25/2026

Are you holding onto a used ICE vehicle because you feel it's "reliable"?
Why not shift into a used EV and experience even greater reliability as well as lower costs of ownership?

EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same age

09/23/2026

So, historically speaking, this BEV bike goes back to motorcycling's roots where you ran from cafe to cafe, except now it's charging at the stops. Cafe Racer anyone?
FortNine editor takes a BEV bike on a tour of BC with interesting results.

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09/22/2026

🚨 The City of Victoria has informed us that due to the upcoming closure of the Crystal Pool & Fitness Centre and construction of a new facility, the EV fast chargers in the parking lot (2275 Quadra St.) will be unavailable after Sept. 25, 2026. 🚨


To find other public EV charger locations, near this location or anywhere in Victoria visit victoria.ca/EV. ⚡️🔋

Crystal Pool EV Charger ClosureWith the upcoming closure of Crystal Pool & Fitness Centre and construction of the new facility, the EV fast chargers in the parking lot will be unavailable after Sept. 25, 2026.The City provides electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in public parks and parkades and....

09/04/2026

Want to know why the Legacy Internal Combustion Engine (LICE) industry has fought so hard to stay firmly planted in the past technologies that made themselves rich while making the citizen-consumer poor and sick?
Read on.

The main US auto lobby group begged Congress to ban more-advanced Chinese EVs as it desperately seeks to keep milking America with trash cars.

08/23/2026

Thus has been around a bit, but it's worth repeating.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AiGNCaPKC/

08/16/2026

Have you heard the rationalization that keeping a functional ICE vehicle results in less environmental impact than getting an EV? We had, and years ago demonstrated that in as little as two years the ICE Operational emissions overtake both the Embedded and Operational emissions of an EV.

Well, the respected journal 'Science' has had a look and confirmed that keeping an ICE vehicle on the road (unless you don't drive it) results in far more emissions than an EV, even on the dirtiest grid in Canada.

How can you best tell your friends this good news?

The climate benefits of retiring a fully operational internal combustion engine vehicle | Science

Internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles represent the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions for most US households. Although battery electric vehicles (BEVs) considerably reduce use-phase emissions, the transition poses a fundamental life ...

08/13/2026

"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.". William Gibson
The Economist, December 4, 2003

Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator aircraft completed its first flight at Plattsburgh International Airport in upstate New York, becoming the largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown.

With a 106-foot wingspan and takeoff weight over 25,000 pounds, X1 completed a 27-minute piloted mission comprising taxi, takeoff, climb, maneuvering and landing.

Powered entirely by batteries, X1 used approximately $5 worth of electricity during the flight, highlighting electric aviation’s potential to deliver structurally lower commercial aircraft operating costs.

The flight demonstrated electric aviation at the scale of a commercial airliner, marking a major step toward bringing electric aircraft into everyday airline service.

The milestone advances the development of Heart’s ES-30, a 30-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner targeted to enter commercial service in 2031.

On August 12, 2026, Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator aircraft comp...

08/05/2026

Want to know more about how the last twenty years in EV/Battery Storage design came about, and why "solid state" batteries won't be happening anytime soon?
This deep dive (Geek Rating 8/10) will prove illuminating.

TOPICS:- The future of EVs & EV batteriesPANEL:Bob Galyen, Batt...