Why not electric?

Cranbrook City Council is undergoing the review of its five year financial plan.  There are scheduled replacements for trucks in that review along with the issue of 'carbon offsets'.  We wonder if the city has considered electric vehicles for some of these new purchases.  We have posted several articles about municipalities across Canada who have invested in electric vehicles and wonder if they might be suitable here and if not considered suitable why that would be? Would a 'cute vehicle' have difficulty with our winter roads and would it be possible to do something about that?  Would a vehicle such as this be suitable for a position such as a bylaw officer?

Thursday, February 17, 2011


Ucluelet Plugs Into Electric Vehicles

By Canadian Electric Vehicles
UCLUELET - The District of Ucluelet has purchased two new electric trucks to help reduce their carbon footprint. Ucluelet joins many other BC communities who are moving towards using clean electric vehicles to replace fuel burning fleet vehicles which emit, on average, 4.37 tonnes of CO2 per year.

Community of Ucluelet Mayor, Eric Russcher, based his decision to purchase the electric utility trucks on the fact that they are “Economically viable, environmentally friendly, reduces our carbon footprint, efficient and to top it off they are cute. We have found a true win-win situation.”

The Might-E Trucks Ucluelet purchased are manufactured on Vancouver Island by Canadian Electric Vehicles (CEV) who has been supplying electric solutions to municipalities, governments and businesses around the world for the last 21 years. CEV owner Randy Holmquist says, "It is only the last two or three years that we have seen growth in our Canadian sales but it's a significant increase this year. As communities struggle to reduce their green house gas emissions they are realizing the benefits of replacing dirty fuel burning trucks with clean electric ones" Holmquist is pleased that communities like Ucluelet choose to purchase from a local Canadian company – something which is good for the Vancouver Island economy and good for the Canadian economy.