Gypsy Jan
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EV Rallye: British Columbia to Baja California
Saturday, June 29, a "Golden Plug" celebration was held at the Peace Arch State Park, where a dozen EV drivers began the journey from Canada to Mexico
powered solely by electricity.
"Nearly 150 years ago, the driving of the ceremonial "Golden Spike" signaled the completion of the first transcontinental railroad across North
America. This last weekend, electric-vehicle (EV) owners converged near the USA/Canada border to symbolically connect the charging networks along the
West Coast Electric Highway, before unplugging and departing on an adventure designed to link, through EV driving, both extremities of the West Coast.
Drivers will make the 1,500-mile, nine-day road trip - called the BC2BC (British Columbia to Baja California) - without using a drop of gas.
Washington Secretary of Transportation Lynn Peterson, Parliamentary Secretary to the British Columbia Premier for Intergovernmental Affairs Norm
Letnick and other dignitaries led the launch celebration.
Once the formalities done, vehicles made their departures in five-minute intervals.
The BC2BC is the brainchild of event organizer Tony Williams who, along with his 10-year-old daughter, completed the same nine-day voyage in an EV in
June 2012. That experience led to the newly created BC2BC, an invitational rally which Williams hopes will turn into an annual event.
Competitors are expected to arrive at a McDonalds in San Ysidro, California, July 7 after covering an estimated 1508 miles with their EVs."
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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bajagrouper
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Competitors are expected to arrive at a McDonalds in San Ysidro, California, July 7 after covering an estimated 1508 miles with their EVs."
so why don't they rename it BC2SY... I thought is was going into Baja?
I hear the whales song
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Islandbuilder
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30 mile legs, or a flatbed with a genset along side?
Here in the Northwest, most of our power comes from dams that were built decades ago without regard for spawning salmon. To imply (as is always the
case in stunts like this) that electric vehicles have no environmental impact is false. What is true is that the impact is felt somewhere else,
usually with dead fish at the bottom of a poorly designed fish ladder.
Much like our national energy policy: Move the energy extraction location out of the US, usually to a place where the local citizens have dark skin.
We prefer to keep our yard clean while making a mess in theirs. How is that not racist?
Sorry for the hijack.
Not a argument against the cars themselves, but against the disengenuous rhetoric that seems to go with them.
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