Can you believe it? Oak Bay, a very nice community located in Victoria, B.C. could be Canada’s first municipality that will allow electric cars on its public streets according to an article from the Time Colonist….
Oak Bay nears electric-car nirvana
Municipality could be the first to OK no-emission vehicle
Kim Westad, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, June 26, 2008
Oak Bay has found the vehicles that fit its green policy and low speed limits — electric cars that top out at a maximum speed of 50 km/h.
The municipality is drafting a bylaw that would allow electric cars on its public streets, making it possibly the first municipality in B.C. to take advantage of new provincial legislation that expands where the innovative vehicles can be driven.
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My mistake, Quebec could be the first…
Electric cars now allowed on some Quebec roads
Fuel-efficient vehicles permitted where speed limit is less than 50 km/h
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/07/17/qc-electriccarquebec0717.html
Who covets the electric car? Sales surge in Ottawa
from CBC | Consumer Life News
Ottawa motorists are being driven like never before toward technology that allows them to run a car without gas, say those who help convert cars to electric power.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/07/21/ot-electric-car-080721.html
Nobody killed the electric car
Christopher Maughan, Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, July 18, 2008
MONTREAL – Quebec’s electric car manufacturers say they can’t produce their product fast enough to meet demand and have put clients’ names on waiting lists.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=90ffed62-5ede-44db-afcd-63c4c80217d6