M2O Blog » conference coverage http://blogm2o.com Social Media from the M2O studios Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:53:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Future Vehicle Technologies: The Canadian Designed Electric Sports Car http://blogm2o.com/2009/01/future-vehicle-technologies-the-canadian-designed-electric-sports-car/ http://blogm2o.com/2009/01/future-vehicle-technologies-the-canadian-designed-electric-sports-car/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:48:42 +0000 Tris Hussey http://www.blogm2o.com/future-vehicle-technologies-the-canadian-designed-electric-sports-car/ Tesla Motors has been making headlines with their electric-powered sports car, well I think we have something cooler up here. Maple Ridge-based Future Vehicle Technologies build a gas-powered car called the Alé (think olé with “ah” sound) which gets amazing gas milage (something like 90 MPG), but that was only the prelude to what they have on tap now…

The eVaro is a gas-electric hybrid that can hit 200 km/hr with over 135 mpg, and still be able to do 0-60 in 5 seconds. Yeah 5 seconds.

Right now the prototype only has one seat, but check it out, it’s street legal! It is registered and insured with ICBC!

We have two pieces of video for you about the car, plus a slide show of these amazingly cool cars:

Future Vehicle Technologies is a privately-held company currently seeking additional funding to bring this car to market in a couple years.

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]]> http://blogm2o.com/2009/01/future-vehicle-technologies-the-canadian-designed-electric-sports-car/feed/ 0 Jack and Tris seek out cool technology at the mining investment conference http://blogm2o.com/2009/01/jack-and-tris-seek-out-cool-technology-at-the-mining-investment-conference/ http://blogm2o.com/2009/01/jack-and-tris-seek-out-cool-technology-at-the-mining-investment-conference/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:37:08 +0000 Tris Hussey http://www.blogm2o.com/jack-and-tris-seek-out-cool-technology-at-the-mining-investment-conference/ This morning Jack and I wandered over to the convention centre to see what cool new technology we could find that the mining investment conference. Yeah we were a little concerned too. I mean what are we going to find? Giant drills? A new way to dig a hole in the ground?

As you can see in this pun-filled introduction we might have been bright-eyed and bushy tailed, but maybe a wee concerned.

As it turns out we had nothing to fear because we connected up with a company based in Maple Ridge that is making an electric-powered sports car and a Vancouver-based geothermal energy company about to launch a power plant in Nevada.

Let’s get to the fun…

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