The 2013 Fall Home Show will be November 1st to 3rd, 2013 and MEVA will attend. If you have any questions about electric vehicles, this is your opportunity to ask face to face questions of some of the early adopters of electric vehicles here in Winnipeg. The Fall Home Show will be at Red River […]

Given that the usual last Thursday of the month will be October 31st (Halloween), the October meeting will be Thursday, October 24th. Speaker: Gerry Kopelow will be speaking.  If you don’t know already, Gerry has worked with electricity since he was a boy, and has converted both a 1985 BMW, and a 2001 Chevy S10. […]

“With the mercury standing at 44 degrees below zero in Winnipeg, Detroit Electric Commercial Vehicles were on the streets giving their regular service, although traffic in general was at a standstill. Think of it. The cold was so intense that even telegraph wires were snapped.” See this 1912 ad for the Detroit Electric   1912 […]

Dave Wardrop has ridden the future and the future is electric. The Winnipeg Transit boss said electric batteries are the likely future fuel source for the city’s buses. “As a developmental technology, electric is at a relatively mature state within the industry and appears to offer a potential attractive pricing point,” Wardrop, Transit’s director, said. […]

On Thursday, September 12th, 2013, CTV news interviewed Ross Redman about his Miev, and the upcoming MEVAFest 2013. Ross, the first Canadian to own the new Mitsubishi Miev, said that last year he drove about 10,000 km, and only spent $76 on the electricity; it’s really inexpensive to run. Ross also spoke about MEVAFest 2013; […]

On September 12 2013, Global News interviewed EV Owner Ross Redman and MEVA President Ed Innes. They spoke about electric vehicles and MEVAFest 2013. Ed pointed out that the energy expense to run an electric vehicle is about 1/8 to 1/10th the cost to drive an internal combustion engine vehicle. Ross said that last year […]

Recently, Matthew Klippenstein from the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Assocation, did some investigating and compiled some Canadian EV sales statistics. The data comes from government vehicle registration data, compiled by R.L. Polk & Co. From the data, total Canadian Electric Vehicle sales have reached just under 4,000.  The time frame is “to date”, since OEMs began […]

Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited and the University of Manitoba Faculty of Engineering invite you to attend a special presentation with Gilbert (Gil) Portalatin, Chief Program Engineer Electrified Powertrain Programs and Integration, on Ford’s award-winning engineering on Wednesday, October 2 at 5:00 p.m. What: Ford Speaking Engagement at the University of Manitoba Engineering School […]