Transport committee Just based on efficiency, the general trend of what you've just said is correct. The only additional parameter I would include would be weight. What weight are you carrying? What are you trying to move? If you're trying to move a fairly large vehicle—think of garbage pickup in
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee Yes, that's right, with what we know today.
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee That's right.
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee They do. You're right. However, to get the same amount of energy as is in a litre of diesel from CNG, compressed natural gas, you're basically looking at just a bit under a cubic metre, which would cost about 35¢ less than a litre of diesel, so—
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee Well, if you did one-for-one on the energy you need, it's going to be 35¢ less per litre, so—
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee It's at $1.20, I would say, or something like that.
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee It's a reduction of 20% to 25%.
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee It's a relatively current price. It's within the last few weeks.
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee They're certainly trending lower.
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee Well, let me respond. I would concur with your assessment that Vancouver is one of the leading cities in terms of the utilization of electric vehicles, with things like the charging infrastructure. BC Hydro does sit on our implementation committee as one of the utilities represe
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee I would say that we are still working towards the objective. We're not there yet. As you may know, the commercial uptake—the public purchase of electric vehicles—is still quite nascent in the country. Volume, as in many consumer products, will have an impact on price. There is n
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee That's an interesting question—
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee I think I didn't really get the context until your supplementary question, and now I'm beginning to understand. There is no question that the work we're obligated to do has competitive focus, in that we work with industry to have things brought to commercial use to maintain comp
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee Now you're going to test my memory. This document was actually released at the annual conference in Montreal. That would have been about 18 months ago, so the document was published about 18 months ago.
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro
Transport committee We're all involved in many potential avenues to varying degrees. As I said in my introductory remarks, to date the work that we're involved in is driven largely by the GHGs and the energy usage factor, so given the impact of automobiles and on-road transportation, that's where we
February 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Geoff Munro