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SFU students take to the skies with Harbour Air ePlane project
September 21, 2023By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer Students from SFU’s Management of Technology (MOT) degree are taking to the skies with the first electric commercial planes. This project is part of an ongoing venture with Harbour Air Seaplanes, a company based out of Vancouver, Richmond, and Pitt Meadows. Students from SFU’s MOT program were tasked with analyzing planes and researching how the new expansion would impact business. Since 2019, over 70 tested flights have occurred with the ePlanes through Harbour Air. With the help of SFU MOT students, assessments such as “electric aviation sector, gauging market dynamics, competition, technological innovations, and pinpointing…
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TransLink is electrifying their bus routes
March 17, 2023By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer At the beginning of 2022, TransLink released a Climate Action Strategy. A message from the chief executive officer Kevin Quinn stated, “It’s our responsibility, as the backbone of Metro Vancouver’s sustainable transportation system, to do everything…
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Juno award winners Metalwood return after 14 years
September 6, 2016Just when we thought they were gone for good, Canada’s premier electric jazz group Metalwood explodes from a gooey, melted mélange of bass-heavy funk, bubbling brass, and rambunctious drum medleys that defined their recordings at the turn of the 21st…
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Bring more plug-in cars to Canada
August 4, 2015With the ever-steady rise in gas prices, driving my car from Coquitlam to Vancouver is costing more and more every day. As an individual looking for an alternative, the fabled electric cars caught my eye. Now here’s something that wouldn’t…
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