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To mark the beginning of new era in sustainable mobility in British Columbia, a ceremony was held Friday, July 17, when Toyota Canada delivered a Prius Plug-In Hybrid (PHV) to a group of BC testing partners. These partners include BC Institute of Technology (BCIT), BC Hydro, City of Vancouver, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and the University of Victoria's Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVic). Representatives from each organization were on hand to officially 'plug-in' to the future and deliver the Prius PHV to the province of B.C. To mark the occasion, B.C.'s Minister of State for Climate Action John Yap, Vancouver's Deputy Mayor Ellen Woodsworth, BCIT's President Don Wright, IESVic's Curran Crawford and Toyota Canada's Managing Director Stephen Beatty were on hand for the delivery at 1800 Spyglass Place in Vancouver. "Partnerships that bring the public and private sectors together to spur innovations like plug-in hybrids also bring us one step closer to a low-carbon economy in this province," said John Yap, Minister of State for Climate Action. "We expect that coupling B.C.'s clean energy resources with the cutting edge technology of plug-in hybrids will lead to a Full story...