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Ideas wanted what's "next" for these green-sustainable developements?

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Ideas wanted - what's "next" for these green-sustainable developements?

Are you a consultant? If you have comments or suggestions on what I can do "next" about these, please kindly shoot them out ..

The revived battery process was chosen by Canadian Business magazine as one of the top three inventions for 2008.

 

Al Gore Slide Show and No.Van.Mayor talk with our e-truck

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Dr. Jim Stevenson and the mayor of North Van presented Al Gore's slide show (not the movie.) The slide show is interesting because it was customised by Stevenson for local content. We also took the Revived Battery electric pickup, which was displayed outside Capilano College's theater, and seemed to inspire lots of young people, as you'll see in these video clips.

 

What a lawmaker and citizens thought of a cost-free battery in an electric pickup truck

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Here's a link to a video blog of what Jenny Kwan, Vancouver MLA and several citizens said about our electric pickup at the Mt. Pleasant Harvest Festival, where our EV was on display:

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1119305339

 

What a lawmaker and citizens thought of a cost-free battery in an electric pickup truck

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Here's a link to a video blog of what Jenny Kwan, Vancouver MLA and several citizens said about our electric pickup at the Mt. Pleasant Harvest Festival, where our EV was on display:

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1119305339

 

Young people large unaware of Salmon Decline, Catch and Release Fishing

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Sad to learn, during our festival activities, that almost no young child is aware of Salmon Decline or Conservation of fish stocks thru Catch and Release fishing methods. So, we at Solar Power Roadshow started something we call the Catch and Release Fishing Conservation Roadshow.. here's a video clip:

 

EV Diary, part V (lots of photos), link

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The electric pickup truck at Commercial Drive

http://evdiary-revived-pickup.blogspot.com/

Check out our trip photos, click on link above. People love to talk to us about this, especially after the CBC aired David Attenborough's complete "The Truth About Climate Change", of which, part two was about solving what the scientists called, "a foreseeable catastrophe."

 

We need $50K to put five electric vehicles with Revived Batteries in Vancouver's roads

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Picking up recycled materials for the Sustainable Music Factory

Hello,

Peter Mansbridge and the CBC Newsworld's crew has been airing, nightly, devastating stories of the effects of climate change around the world. It pains me to watch this. Have you seen it?

This show compels me and my informal group of electronic hobbyists to put in an effort to put five electric vehicles, running from Revived Batteries (taken from a scrap pile, thereby reducing pollution at the same time) on Vancouver's roads.

We already have three battery breakthroughs in our electric pickup truck, which you can check out in the EV Album webpages. It is the first battery vehicle with a per-mile cost that is a fraction of the cost of gasoline.

However, we need more 'nearly- free-energy' cars/trucks on the road. Five such vehicles should inspire people everywhere, that they are not helpless, either.

Let's do it now. Yesterday.

However, we're just hobbyists, and are clueless about raising funds. We need help here.

Is there anything you can do?

Yours truly,

Rob Matthies
306 - 349 East 6th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC
V5T 1J9
( 6 0 4 ) 7 3 9 - 7 7 1 7

P.S. Have you read the new book, "Lives Per Gallon"?

Here's what the newspapers and TV said about
our 'no cost' battery electric vehicle:

http://tv-news-revived-batteries.blogspot.com/

 

EV DIARY - Part Two- WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR INDUSTRY?

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The Burnaby Now newspaper photographer taking photos

EV DIARY - Part Two- WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR COTTAGE INDUSTRY?

Everything here is just my opinion, my two cents worth, and my opinion could be wrong, too.

Did you see the movie, "Who Killed The Electric Car?" and wondered why the dozens of small electric car makers never became more successful? In fact, almost all of them bit the dust, or went belly-up! The notable exceptions include CANEV in Vancouver Island, probably because most of his business is for airport utility trucks, not cars. The other notable exception is AC Propulsion in California.