Anne Swan (MBA’07) shares her family’s experience going ‘fully electric’ this year. She and her husband have two Tesla electric vehicles that enable daily commutes as well as trips around Nova Scotia with their three young children.

Dr. Wayne Groszko (PhD (Oceanography)’99), renewable energy coordinator for the Ecology Action Centre, weighs in on the challenges and benefits of electric vehicle ownership in the province.

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Her Tesla Model X’s gull-wing doors, touch controls and self-driving function give it an ahead-of-its-time vibe, but it was Anne Swan’s trip to California that really made her feel like she’d gone back to the future.

“Every other car you see there is a Leaf or Tesla. When you come down the highway, it’s awesome — there’s super-charging everywhere,” the Nova Scotian says. “It’s just not happening here at all.”

Swan travelled to Quebec earlier this year to get one of the first Tesla Model Xs on Nova Scotian roads. Her husband also has a Tesla and this was the year they went fully electric.

Read more in “All charged up: Nova Scotia’s electric future” on thechronicleherald.ca.