Pete Poovanna

Pete Poovanna is a Canadian Queen Elizabeth Scholar and a clean transportation analyst who oversees the BC Fleet Electrification program and the West Coast Electric Fleets program. He has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University in India, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Coventry University in the UK and a PhD in Mechatronic Systems Engineering from Simon Fraser University.

Articles by this author

Electric vehicles as part of Canada’s climate change solution

Driving electric vehicles (EVs) is a relatively new experience for Canadians, but they are becoming more popular. EV sales in Canada grew 68 percent from 2016 to 2017 alone, probably because they are cheaper to …

The challenge for EVs to disrupt trucks and buses

Horses dominated transportation for more than 6,000 years, even after steam-powered automobiles came along in 1769. It was the invention of the internal combustion engine (ICE) that revolutionized transportation in the 1800s. It took only …