Driving Canada’s Clean Energy Future
August 13, 2012 / Cara Clairman
I have to be honest. This is my first blog post. Ever. I am guest blogging for “Know Your Power” to document some of the important and exciting developments around electric cars and my experiences in promoting their adoption. First things first. People are always asking me why I started Plug’nDrive. I had a great job as VP of Sustainable Development at Ontario Power Generation (OPG), Ontario’s largest generator of electricity. It was in this job that I hit upon what I consider to be a classic sustainability winner: electric vehicles (EV) are good for the environment, society and the economy. If you plug your car in at night in Ontario (and in most other Canadian provinces) you are plugging into surplus… Continue reading →