Category: MEVA Articles
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EVs and Made-in-Manitoba Electricity
The Power to Change — “We believe in an all-electric future… “ —— 2018, Mary Barra, Chair and CEO General Motors In mid-January, 2020, Tesla Inc. achieved market capitalization of $107 billion, overtaking Volkswagen to become the world’s second most valuable automobile company after Toyota. Now, Tesla’s valuation exceeds that of Ford and GM combined. Tesla’s superlative […]
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MEVA – Environmental Activists or Just Another Car Club
Because the Manitoba Electric Vehicle Association (MEVA) is a member of the Manitoba Association of Automobile Clubs, some folks assume that MEVA members are simply a bunch of gear-heads-against-exhaust-pipes. Well, it’s true, some MEVA members are handy with a wrench. They get their kicks customizing and cruising, but many are avid walkers, cyclists and transit […]
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MEVA AGM & Dinner 2017
including election of MEVA Executives for 2018 Thursday, October 26, 2017 at CanadInns Fort Garry 1824 Pembina Hwy, Winnipeg *** Special guest: Ross Eadie, Winnipeg City Councillor (Mynarski Ward) In April, Councillor Russ Wyatt, seconded by Councillor Ross Eadie, moved that Winnipeg City Council should support the installation of electric vehicle DC quick-charge stations in […]
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7th Annual MEVAfest
Every year, members of the Manitoba Electric Vehicle Association (MEVA) look forward to hosting MEVAfest, the prairie’s most popular EV festival. The 7th annual MEVAfest was held from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., on Saturday, September 9th, 2017, on the front driveway of the Manitoba Legislative Building. For MEVAfest 2017, participants came from across the province to […]
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Canada’s Largest Plugin Hybrid-Electric “Cherry-Picker”
MEVAfest 2016, at the MB Legislative Bldg., MB Hydro employees proudly display Canada’s largest plugin hybrid-electric boom truck. For the past two years, Manitoba Hydro and BC Hydro have been operating plugin hybrid-electric bucket trucks in an Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) program to promote the use of large PHEVs by utilities and municipalities in the United States […]
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MEVA AGM 2016 with special guest, The Hon. Robert-Falcon Ouellette, M.P.
At MEVA AGM 2016, The Hon. Robert-Falcon Ouellette, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre, addressed MEVA’s determination to connect our province to the continental network of level 3 EV fast-charging stations, which is rapidly expanding throughout the U.S. and across Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. We know that strategically locating level 3 fast-charging stations in our province would make it […]
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June 2015 Meeting: MEVAfest is moving downtown!
7:00 PM, Thursday, June 25, 2015 Room E2-330 U. of M. Engineering Building, 15 Gilson Street, Winnipeg. June 2015 Meeting: MEVAfest is moving. It’s official, we’ll celebrate the fifth anniversary of MEVAfest, at Manyfest, in downtown Winnipeg, Saturday afternoon, September 12th! We’d like to thank everyone who supported our successful application to participate in Manyfest 2015. Manyfest is […]
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MEVA Members Win Gold!
Congratulations to MATTHEW HEWLETT, CALEB TURON and DAWSON KINGSTON!!! Not only are they brilliant, but they’re humble, too! They didn’t tell us, but on April 25, 2015, at the Manitoba Schools Science Symposium, MEVA’s youngest members were honoured for trying to improve the lives of people around the world. For their efforts and their ingenuity, […]
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Energy East pipeline – a threat to Manitoba’s drinking water?
Retired biophysicist Dennis LeNeveu authored an unsettling report, which was recently released by the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition (MEJC). Here’s a brief summary of the CBC and Canadian Press coverage of that report. A new report from the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition says that a pipeline, which would carry one million barrels of oil per day from Alberta […]
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2014 MEVA AGM and Dinner
Thursday, November 27th, 6:00 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.) at Fort Whyte Alive! 1961 McCreary Rd., Winnipeg, MB To make your reservation for the MEVA AGM dinner, email your name and phone number to rossredman54@gmail.com Manitoba Electric Vehicle Association (MEVA) members invite everyone to join us for dinner and our Annual General Meeting (AGM), at the Siobhan Richardson […]