REV!2009 - the Show

The REV Report

Another great display of electric vehicles for 2009!

Hundreds of attendees came out to see the very practical and fascinating EV creations. A half dozen new 4-wheeled builds surfaced that showed great ingenuity on the part of the builder. There were more bike and recumbent builds than car builds this year.

There was a tremendous variety of EVs and very high interaction this year, especially in the PET (personal electric transportation) area. Dozens of eBikes, scooters, mini and motocross bikes, karts and skateboards were everywhere.

A record amount of Riding (the R in REV) was done this year, with an average of three vehicles running on one of the two designated tracks at any given moment.

There were a more than a dozen new entries representing companies and organizations that specialize in energy and/or transportation. These included:

• City of Vancouver
• BC Hydro
• GLOBE Foundation (EPIC Show)
• Canadian Electric Vehicles (Manufacturer of utility NEVs, EV parts supplier)
• REV Technologies Inc. (Electric Conversion of Ford Escapes and Rangers & Hymotion Plug-in Prius)
• Electric Autosports Inc. (Conversion parts and service)
• Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. (EV drives and the eVaro)
• Excel Fuel Installations (electric conversions)
• RG Diagnostics (Conversions)
• Impressive Signs, Gibsons BC
• VAGGA - Vancouver Auto Greening Guild and Association (a non-profit focused on EV conversion education)
• E-Ride / Greenwit Technologies (Electric scooters, bicycles and skateboards)
• Rick Blazecka's New Wage Transport (scooters)
• Alliance Leisure Products (Electric Bikes)
• Burnaby Lake Flyers Club (Hobby Electric Model Airplanes)
• MSR Innovations specializes in instant solar panel installations using 1x1 ft square active solar "tiles" with interconnect pigtails already attached.

This year's event was held again at the Burnaby Sports Complex parking lot near Kensington and Sprott avenues near the tennis courts. Thanks goes to the City of Burnaby which supported the event and provided local advertising, the display area and the special 100 amp 240 volt service in the neighboring clubhouse.

Thanks goes to the 40+ exhibitors who brought in their cars, bikes, trikes, karts and various odd EV creations to show. Randy Holmquist from Errington BC, trailered in a Might-Etruck.

Thanks go once again to VEVA member Dave Koehn, for the VEVA charging trailer setup. Thanks go also to all the volunteers from several committees: Vincent Law who coordinated the event, John Stonier who did the press releases and car registrations, Gordon Wong who did the online pregistration, Ron Burton and Alan Cumberlidge who wrangled the Detroit, Walter Wardrop for supplying the traffic controls, Laura Thomson for taking care of Buttercup's new decals, Patrick Mark provided Volunteer Badges, Robert Shaw provided some tables, John Foster did new member registrations and coordinated the Children's Area, Julie Koehn and Evelyn J. Dyck staffed the information/membership booth, Lawrence Harris and the Scouts provided a great food booth, Hakkon and Peter again provided a complete BBQ dinner for the group.

VEVA invites you to come see and experience electric vehicles at our events. You will see that there is a guilt-free and affordable solution to the increasingly guilt-ridden and expensive activity of daily travel. EVs when charged from 100% hydro power very likely produce less CO2 than public transit!