August 22, 2024–
Calgarians invited to check drive electrical automobiles for the month of September
August 22, 2024, Calgary, Alberta – Plug’n Drive, in partnership with The Metropolis of Calgary, is worked up to announce the launch of the Cellular EV Training Trailer (MEET) Calgary in Calgary for the month of September. Bringing electrical automobile (EV) schooling and take a look at drives to Calgarians helps native and world efforts to encourage the adoption of low-carbon automobiles and transportation infrastructure to cut back greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions and create more healthy communities.
From September 5 to 29, 2024, MEET Calgary can be stationed within the East Parking Lot on the Vivo Centre for More healthy Generations, situated at 11950 Nation Village Hyperlink NE, Calgary.
MEET Calgary can be open to the general public every Thursday by Sunday from 10 am to five pm. This initiative will function an interesting group hub, offering beneficial info on the environmental and financial advantages of driving electrical in Canada.
Guests to MEET Calgary can sit up for interacting with native EV Ambassadors, exploring academic shows, and collaborating in take a look at drives within the following EV fashions such because the Chevrolet Blazer, Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and the Volvo XC60 (topic to vary).
“Transportation accounts for 1/3 of city-wide emissions in Calgary, with site visitors being one of many main contributors to air air pollution,” explains Jordan Service, Public Program Coordinator with the Metropolis of Calgary. “Selling low-carbon alternate options, such because the adoption of electrical automobiles, is essential for reaching net-zero emissions and enhancing local weather resilience.”
“Take a look at drives are important within the decision-making course of for getting an electrical automobile and they are often tough to entry,” says Mary Mallin, Supervisor of Occasions and Logistics at Plug’n Drive. “MEET Calgary presents guests a chance to expertise EVs in a non-sales setting and get solutions to their questions on EV driving and charging.”
Take a look at drives at MEET Calgary are free and obtainable to licensed drivers aged 21 and over. Whereas walk-ins are welcome, guests are inspired to e-book their most popular appointment instances utilizing the MEET Calgary reserving calendar.
Key Occasion Particulars
- Presenting Sponsor: The Metropolis of Calgary
- Dates: September 5-29, 2024 (open to the general public Thursdays to Sundays)
- Location: Vivo Centre for More healthy Generations, 11950 Nation Village Hyperlink NE (East Parking Lot), Calgary, AB T3K 6E3 (Map)
- Free EV Take a look at Drives and EV Training: MEET Calgary Reserving Calendar
- Driver Necessities: Have to be 21 years of age with a legitimate driver’s license
Unique group bookings are doable for Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Contact [email protected] to debate choices.
Concerning the MEET
Plug’n Drive has been happy to work with our many sponsors to develop, design and ship the Cellular EV Training Trailer (MEET). For the reason that MEET was first launched in 2020, it has been partaking communities throughout Canada from British Columbia to New Brunswick.
The MEET is modeled after Plug’n Drive’s Electrical Car Discovery Centre situated at 33 Bloor Avenue East in Toronto. It has interactive instruments and high-quality supplies to assist customers alongside the EV discovery journey, together with details about the advantages of EVs, all of the makes and fashions obtainable in Canada, obtainable incentives, and extra. The MEET is staffed by model agnostic EV consultants offering experiential studying in a no-cost, no-pressure, no-sales surroundings. It’s the excellent complement to any regional EV program or initiative and may stay lively in a single location for weeks or months at a time.
The MEET is a public/personal partnership between authorities, trade and communities.
MEET Calgary
- MEET Presenting Sponsor: The Metropolis of Calgary
- Partially Funded By: Pure Assets Canada
- MEET Automaker Sponsors: Chevrolet, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Polestar, Volvo
- MEET Amplifier: Flo
Canadian EV Quick Information
- Presently, there are properly over 700,000 electric and hybrid electric vehicles on Canadian roads and over 70 completely different EV fashions obtainable, with extra on the way in which at more and more inexpensive costs.
- Canada has over 27,000 public chargers and is on monitor to vastly broaden on that as governments, automotive producers and charging community suppliers construct out the community.
- Plug’n Drive has EV charging assets to assist with public charging, house charging, charging at work, and retrofitting condos.
- In December 2023, the federal authorities launched a sales mandate for 100% zero emission light duty vehicles (ZEVs) by 2035 with an incremental goal of 20% by 2026.
- In Q1 2024, the market share of new zero-emission vehicle registrations in Canada was 11.3%, up from 8.6% in Q1 2023, in keeping with StatsCan.
- With over 83 % of Canada’s electrical energy coming from non-emitting sources (e.g., hydro, nuclear, wind, photo voltaic), the transition to electrical automobiles will vastly scale back Canada’s climate-changing emissions. Mild responsibility automobiles account for about half of Canada’s greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. The transportation sector accounts for about 25 % of Canada’s total GHG emissions.
- Plug’n Drive has a Find Your Match app to browse and evaluate automobiles, value financial savings, and incentives obtainable throughout Canada, together with the federal $5000 incentive for the acquisition of a completely electrical or plug-in hybrid electrical automotive. Driving an electrical automotive can prevent between $1,500-$3,000 per yr on gasoline and upkeep.
- Along with the MEET, Plug’n Drive presents pressure-free EV schooling and take a look at drives by varied packages in Ontario and different jurisdictions together with the Electrical Car Discovery Centre, the Electrical Car Roadshow, and the Worker Engagement Program.
- Go to the Plug’n Drive occasions calendar to see the place different occasions are presently scheduled.
- Be taught extra in regards to the City of Calgary’s Electric Mobility Strategy.
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About Plug’n Drive
Plug’n Drive is a not-for-profit group accelerating EV adoption in Canada to maximise the environmental and financial advantages of an electrified transportation sector. Our imaginative and prescient is to assist Canada obtain its objective of 100% electrical automobile gross sales by 2035 or earlier. Since 2011, now we have made unbelievable strides in our mission by a wide range of shopper education schemes, together with the launch of the world’s first Electrical Car Discovery Centre (EVDC) in Toronto, the Electrical Car Roadshow occasion sequence in addition to the Cellular EV Training Trailer (MEET). Our company partnerships embody EV auto producers, utilities, EV charger producers, and others. For extra details about Plug’n Drive’s packages, companies, and occasions, go to plugndrive.ca and sign up for our newsletter. Be a part of our group on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
For extra info or to rearrange an interview please contact:
Alan Downward
Communications and Challenge Coordinator
Plug’n Drive
(647) 449-9715
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