How do you make an electric vehicle fly?

How do you make an electric vehicle fly?

When the organisers of the Downstream Energy conference offered Vector a chance to showcase one of our electric vehicles, we leapt at the chance.

Last week’s conference, held at Sky City, involved getting the car into a very small lift and taking it up to the fifth floor.

It took consummate driving skills and a lot of ‘help’ from those watching and taking photos before the car was safely parked in the exhibition space.

Those involved in setting up the exhibition space marvelled at the lack of noise from the vehicle, the loudest sound being the tyres turning against the carpet!*

Network summary for week ending 8 March 2015

Electricity

Emergency services requested power isolations to three house/building fires, in Albany, Glen Innes and Otahuhu.

Our network was damaged by a car v pole incident in Royal Oak during the week. There were four other car v pole events during the week, in Te Atatu Peninsula, Blockhouse Bay, Favona and Waitakere, but no damage was caused to our network by any of these events.

There were four reports of lines down during the week, in Warkworth, Massey, Mairangi Bay and Te Atatu Peninsula, but only the Warkworth case saw damage to our network. Our contractors made this site safe, referring the asset to supervisors for further work.

Gas

Emergency services responded to reports of gas odours in Rotorua and Hamilton during the week. No trace of gas was found in Rotorua, and the customer in Hamilton was referred to a gas fitter.

There was third party damage to our network in Papatoetoe, Whangarei and Hamilton during the week. Our service providers completed the necessary repairs.

Projects

A major gas network improvement programme to replace steel pipes (laid in the 1960s) to new polyethylene networks has come to an end. The $10 million dollar Hamilton project, which has taken three years to complete, has covered numerous kilometres in the region. The new, improved gas pipes will provide increased capacity for customers and improve network security and compliance on the network.

Meanwhile, in Auckland, construction of a new gas district regulator station in East Tamaki is about to begin which will supply a fast growing South East Auckland population. It will be the biggest reticulation station in the area capable of distributing more than 5000 cubic metres of gas per hour.

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