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Open letter to the Minister of the Environment Honorable Mr. Stephan Dion

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PETITION TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR PARTIALLY
SUBSIDIZING THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE

1. Purpose
In some European, Asian countries and some states in USA which have congestion and air quality problems in the big cities the Government stimulates the use of environmentally friendly transportation by paying partially for the purchase of
electric vehicle or deducting certain percent from the taxes. This encourages the manufacturers and dealers to manufacture and promote electric vehicles andcommuters to use them as an alternative of their cars.

In December 2002 Canada ratified the Kyoto protocol with the binding to reduce its green house gas emission for the next ten years to the level six per cent below than 1990. It is well known that the biggest single source of green house gas is the transportation. There are predictions that due to the population increase, especially in British Columbia and Ontario, the greenhouse gas emission in Canada will double for the next ten years.

2. Why Federal Government
Before the ratification of Kyoto protocol there were debates between the provincial and Federal Government that this act may affect adversely the provincial economies.We believe that a nationwide incentive contributing to emission decreasing will be a fair remedy from the Federal Government. Emphasizing the efforts for reducing the green house gas emission on transportation would prevent also some industry cuts.

3. Proposed methods of subsidizing
Our suggestion is that the subsidy fund should be based on the principal “pollutant pays”. We believe that the encouragement of the use of environmentally friendly transportation should be closely related to discouraging of the use of high capacity fossil fuel cars. The best form of subsidizing would be to form a fund from the proposed by the government fuel levy to the owners of vehicles, considered to emit more greenhouse gases than the average vehicle. Using the levy for the same purpose for which it is collected would reduce the reaction of the high volume vehicles owners, especially when they also can benefit from this.

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OPEN LETTER – PETITION TO THE HONORABLE
Mr. STEPHANE DION

Re: Consumer incentives for sustainable transportation

Fifteen hundred cities all over the world including Vancouver, where I live are joining “Escape the car One Day” day today to remind the humanity that we are living in a fragile world and that a fossil fuel vehicle is not the only transportation option. For the last decade we are witnessing the emerging of a new environmentally friendly alternative means of transportation – Light Electric Vehicles (LEV). This sustainable form of transportation has gained popularity in many countries in Europe, Asia and USA in the last years. Unfortunately it became a reality in a few provinces in Canada which enacted the amendment of the motor vehicle act from year 2002 and thus removed most of the previous restrictions.

The LEVs are not only convenient but they are extremely economic in their energy consumption. An electric scooter or bicycle consumes 1 Kilowatt-hour (KWh) energy per 100 kilometers (km). BC Hydro cost is six cents for this amount of energy. An average size combustion engine car consumes 12 to 15 liters of gasoline for the same distance when driven in the city. The relevant cost is about $16. Put in ratio both numbers results in more than 250 times higher efficiency when LEV is used compared to a fossil fuel vehicle (not including that LEV literally doesn’t require any maintenance, driver’s license, insurance, etc.). This high efficiency is a main reason for many incentives introduced by the governments in different countries to the customers using Electric Vehicles.

Our company – Greenwit Technologies Ltd was established in 2002 as a company specialized in design and engineering of LEV. We are designing and importing LEV since the beginning of 2003. From the past contacts with our customers we found that many people are willing to use LEV and this trend has exponentially increased in the last year. We are confident that this trend will sustain if some incentive is introduced by the Canadian Government. That was the reason to launch our petition for partially subsidizing the purchase of any electric vehicle two years ago. We have collected 1165 signatures of people supporting this idea and we believe that the Canadian Ministry of the environment will support it too.

Please find attached the ”Petition to the Federal Government for Partially Subsidizing the Purchase of Electric Vehicle”, signed by1165 Canadian citizens, supporting the sustainable transportation.

This open letter has been posted on www.e-ride.ca .We are looking forward for your response.

Respectfully,

Steve Miloshev, M.Sc
Greenwit Technologies Ltd