Are there any owners of this car around? Has it been successful??
Gary
I read about a Vancouver BC company that makes an electric car line called Dynasty IT.
there web site is
http://itiselectric.com/and the article that got my attention is at...
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=3abc4a85-41e9-457c-8e10-77cb381d4059&p=1and the actual copy from the articlie is inserted below.
Transport Canada rules finish off electric car
Restrictions on use make it impractical to manufacture the vehicles at Vancouver-area plant
Sheila Pratt, Canwest News Service
Published: Saturday, July 26, 2008
Danny Epp looks out at the seven shiny new electric commuter cars parked in his driveway, the last vestiges of the Dynasty corporation, a small Canadian firm that designed and engineered the vehicle from scratch and built it at a small plant outside Vancouver with all-Canadian parts.
Until last month, the vehicles were welcome on Vancouver streets, but now they'll have to be sold south of the border. Unlike U.S. safety regulators, Transport Canada recently decided this class of low-speed vehicles (LSV) should no longer run on public roads.
The federal change of mind smothered Epp's hopes that Canada would become a leader in producing electric vehicles for the low-carbon era knocking at the door.
Danny Epp of Dynasty Electric Car Corporation presents his last remaining seven vehicles.View Larger Image View Larger Image
Danny Epp of Dynasty Electric Car Corporation presents his last remaining seven vehicles.
Glenn Baglo, Vancouver Sun
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Epp shut down his fledgling manufacturing plant in Delta and this spring sold the company, Dynasty Electric Car Corporation, to a firm in Pakistan, along with all the original Canadian engineering work and tooling.
Dynasty got started after the federal government in 2000 created the new Low Speed Vehicle classification for electric cars restricted to 40 kilometres an hour on city streets.
B.C. was the only province to license the vehicle, and it allowed them to travel at 50 km/h for safe city driving (though the Dynasty IT is capable of 70 km/h.)
Dynasty made about 200 cars for drivers in Vancouver, but mostly in the Seattle area, where they can travel 55 km/h.
Epp is proud of the fact the vehicle was engineered and built from the ground up in B.C. with parts from across Canada.
The Dynasty IT model, four seats or two, sold for $15,000, but the price would have come down substantially when production geared up, says Epp.
However, in Canada's restrictive, uncertain regulatory climate, Epp says he couldn't raise the cash to expand operations to make the leap into major production to meet growing demand from consumers fed up with rising gasoline prices.
In December 2007, Ottawa unexpectedly gave notice that it intended to revise the LSV category to restrict the vehicles to gated communities and campuses.
The B.C. government dithered for months, and in late June, it fell in line with Transport Canada's view. That closed the door, said Epp. "It was discouraging," says the mechanical engineer, who worked for years on alternative power for Canada's Navy.
With no polluting emissions, no expensive fill-ups and a range of 50 kilometres before re-charging, the Dynasty was ideal for commuting downtown to work, running the kids to school and picking up groceries -- about 80 per cent of city driving, says Epp.
"They've made it absolutely useless for a consumer to buy one," says Epp. "You can't sell a vehicle that is only allowed to go 40 km/h."
The irony of all this was duly noted by Vancouver's active electric-car enthusiasts. A supposedly greener Canada put the brakes on these electric vehicles, while the U.S. government, officially the world's climate-change bad boy, opened the door -- more than 40 states have licensed them.
or the Maillist 
which both remains active.
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