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Elbil? (That’s Norwegian for electric vehicle)
By Jessica Fisher, Manager of Strategic Partnerships, WWF-Canada With roughly 3,000 electric vehicles currently on the road in Canada, innovators and early adopters are already demonstrating that...
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Electric Vehicles: Torontonians get an electrifying experience
If you live in Toronto and have questions about Electric Vehicles or if you just want to try one out, you should head to Yonge & Dundas Square tomorrow for EV day. An electric vehicle in Oslo. ©...
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One Smart Urban Choice
Coordinated by Rebecca Spring, WWF-Canada’s Manager of Sustainable Transportation. Written by Julie Stauffer Nearly three years ago, Toronto resident Tom Sommerville stumbled upon a particularly...
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Driving the Electric Dream
Coordinated by Rebecca Spring, WWF-Canada’s Manager of Sustainable Transportation. Written by Julie Stauffer For years, software entrepreneur Jason Taylor dreamt of owning an electric vehicle. He...
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Driving Electric at Work
Coordinated by Rebecca Spring, WWF-Canada’s Manager of Sustainable Transportation. Written by Julie Stauffer James LaPointe loves the Mitsubishi i-MiEV parked outside his office at Region of Waterloo...
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The road to 600,000 electric vehicles
A year ago, we launched a revolution at WWF … or rather a rEVolution. With transportation accounting for nearly a third of GHG emissions in Canada, switching from conventional gas-guzzlers to...
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How are we doing? – The Transportation rEVolution status report
One year into our Transportation rEVolution, it’s time to pop the hood and see how we’re doing. We’ve done the research and crunched the numbers. Now we’re ready to unveil our inaugural status update...
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The biggest roadblock for EVs
Houston, we have a problem. We know electric vehicles are a better choice than conventional vehicles in all kinds of ways. They produce a fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions. They’re way easier...
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Moving from laggards to leaders in the Transportation rEVolution
As our recent report shows, Canada’s electric vehicle numbers lag far behind jurisdictions like Norway and California. Clearly, we’ve got a long way to go. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Our report...
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Charging up in BC
Written by Charlotte Argue, Fraser Basin Council One year ago, electric vehicle drivers in British Columbia would have been hard pressed to find a public charging station to top up their battery....
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Finding the most efficient way to get from point A to B
Part three of the National Sweater Day blog series: Three practical Canadian solutions for saving energy and the climate. Did you know that if each person in Canada avoids driving their car for one...
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Jessi Cruickshank on being that 11 yr. old environmental hall monitor and her...
Written by Jessi Cruickshank, TV Personality & WWF supporter I’ve always been passionate about the environment. In Grade 6, I started an anti-litter campaign in my elementary school called “Clean...
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Earth Hour City Challenge: Getting Around Green
On March 27, WWF will announce the 2014 global Earth Hour Capital from 14 finalist cities around the world – including Edmonton, our newly-appointed National Earth Hour Capital. We congratulate all...
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EV MacGyver
Written by Erik Haltrecht Five decades ago, my electrical engineer Father told me how inefficient these fossil fuel, dinosaur cars were and that an electric car would be way more efficient and so much...
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The good, the bad and the ugly: how electric vehicles are doing in Canada
Today, we are releasing our second status update on electric vehicle (EV) uptake in Canada in partnership with Plug’n Drive. In last year’s report, we cheered on the increase in infrastructure and...
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Canadians in electric cars getting silly
We’ve all seen Jerry Seinfeld in “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” but WWF’s new web series is way better. Introducing…”First Dates with David Miller.” Why? First of all, my hair beats Jerry’s,...
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Executive Chef Susur Lee dishes on the electric vehicle
Anyone who has eaten in one of multi-award winning, world-renowned Chef Susur Lee’s restaurants (Lee, Bent and Luckee, to name a few in Toronto) can probably attest to his commitment to high standards...
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Clowning around in an electric car with comedian Mark McKinney
Mark McKinney has been crushing heads and busting guts since the ‘80s as a comedic actor, writer, producer and Canadian icon. This Kids in the Hall alum loves cycling around Toronto and has an intense...
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Jessi Cruickshank on how electric cars can make us all ‘cool’…even the geeks
Written by Jessi Cruickshank, TV Personality & WWF supporter I have never worn ‘cool’ running shoes. I am the girl at the gym with the geriatric New Balances, a size too big so that they to fit my...
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The electric car brings out the eco-nerd in Jessi Cruickshank
WWF supporter and TV personality Jessi Cruickshank is now a bona fide electric vehicles (EVs) expert. We’re not surprised. Earlier in March of this year, she told us about her early passion for the...
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