Not many electric vehicles at "Who Killed The Electric Car" VEVA fundraiser

Gary Tang and I joined the hundreds of people at the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Assn fundraiser at Ridge Theatre in Kits. VEVA was showing its 1917 Detroit Electric car and there were other electric cars, but imho, only Gordon Wong's e-car was equal to a gasoline-burning (internal combustion engine, or ICE) car. The others were weak, or lacked durability -- one got wet, and had to be towed. However, a good point about joining the Car Co-op was stated, during the after-movie panel discussions: Use an e-car or ebike to get to a Car Co-op location, and rent the coop's car only for the few hours that long-range driving is needed. To me, that makes good sense.

Progress report on our all-electric S15 pickup truck: We're going to start putiing the revived batteries in tonight. This should be the world's first licensed electric vehicle to use only zero-cost, revived batteries.

Tomorrow, the Solar Power Roadshow Clean Tech after-school workshops start at Capilano College, and I'll be riding my electric scooter or ebike which the students love to see.

BTW, Saturday's Globe & Mail's front page featured climate change as the biggest problem. That's what my group aims to educate people about, in a fun way.

Did you know you could run a car on just water, too? Look up "hydrogen generatos" -- people are using these to power their ICE cars right now.

"Anybody can make energy" is the motto of Solar Power Roadshow. These smart kids ran a calculator with gravity-power and a desk clock with water. (Vancouver's library has several books on how to run a car with tap water. Rob and the Solar Power Road show crew encourage kids to visit the library and to read more about "impossible energy." Or, if you're an adult, consider joining the Vancouver Perpetural Motion and Amateur Inventors Club which meets monthly.