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Lithium battery recycling facility suffers explosions, fire

A big piece of the end-of-life plan for lithium batteries is recycling and there is only one place in North America currently capable of carrying out that procedure. That facility, owned and operated by Toxco Waste Management in southeastern British Columbia, experienced a large fire last Saturday after suffering through a series of explosions. The event, which happened after-hours, seems to have started in a lithium storage building and created an impressive fireworks display for about 45 minutes. No one was hurt and the main facility ... Read more →

H2 Olympics power: BC Transit gets first fuel cell bus with Ballard stack Sam Abuelsamid

Over two years ago, we first learned the British Columbia Transit was planning to acquire 20 fuel cell-powered buses for use in the Whistler area ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The first of ...

Vancouver, BC signs on for Mitsubishi iMiEV testing Sam Abuelsamid

The latest test site for the Mitsubishi iMiEV is in the Great White North, specifically the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver joins several other locales on the west coast in testing ...

B.C. to increase the carbon tax on drivers by 2.4 cents per liter during the summer Xavier Navarro

As you know, some countries are trying to reduce fossil fuels consumption by creating a carbon tax that is applied to products such as gasoline. One such example is British Columbia, Canada, where a ...

Zenn is now legal to drive on Canada's streets Lascelles Linton

Less than a week ago, we told you about a CBC report with Zenn complaining Transport Canada was not allowing its low speed vehicle to sold in Canada. The report included a regulatory enforcement ...

BC transit sticking with clean diesel buses over hybrids for now 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

BC Transit, the company that operates transit bus services in the Vancouver-British Columbia region, has decided to go with new diesel buses instead of hybrids for the time being. The company has been operating half a dozen buses equipped with the GM-Allison two-mode hybrid system for over a year in ...

British Columbia to mandate diesel emissions retrofits for trucks 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Government of the western Canadian province of British Columbia will be the first to require older commercial trucks to be retrofitted with new emissions control equipment. The BC government will require all heavy duty diesel vehicles, including government fleet vehicles that weigh more than ...

Whistler BC to get fleet of fuel cell buses 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Many of the world's best winter athletes will be converging on Whistler, British Columbia in early 2010 for the next Winter Olympic games and they will be followed by thousands of tourists. When those crowds descend on the resort town 70 miles north of Vancouver a lot of them will get around on the ...

B.C. minster eager to follow U.S. lead in biodiesel 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

British Columbia Agriculture Minister Pat Bell has called for a feasibility study for the first implementation of a biodiesel production facility in the Peace region of the western Canadian province. Bell puts his faith in biodiesel as an answer to fluctuating fuel prices and feeble farmer profits ...

Laughing at the price of gas 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Electric car conversions are more frequent in British Columbia, since the release of the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Randy Holmquist runs Canadian Electric Vehicles in Errington, B.C. and says he used to sell only one or two conversions a year. Now he's selling up to two a month. Cost ...


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