I predicted that the limited capacity of our EV charging network would be demonstrated last year on the May holiday but turns out it is today our network's capacity was finally... er... eclipsed... Fortunately my car is stuck inside the totality!

So instead of a collaborative industry charging standard (CCS), we were persuaded to adopt Tesla's NACS which now has no technical team to drive it forward?

I signed up to get email alerts about your beautiful, small electric #fiat500e FIAT 500 Canada - what gave your parent company the idea I would want to know about their grotesquely oversized gas guzzlers?

Sensible messaging from The Globe and Mail - cheap Chinese EVs will make going ⚡️a clearer option and long-term raise sales of locally-built models from other carmakers if they up their game. A win win! theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…

This excellent piece ends "Switching to Canadian electricity for driving will cut climate pollution. And it will also save Canadian drivers far more money every time they fill up than any gas-tax-holiday ever will."

I have decidedly mixed to skeptical views about this. Have a listen to this fascinating Tim Harford Cautionary Tales episode about the Sinclair C5 timharford.com/2022/04/cautio…

Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948

Oh for heaven's sake not you too! What about protecting our environment? Making it easier for millions of Canadians to buy better, cheaper vehicles? We're subsidizing our domestic EV supply chain already anyway!

EVs have an important role where populations are too spread out to easily serve with transit but the batteries in a Cybertruck could power four (!) BYD Seagulls - the top-selling non-Tesla BEV globally. What a waste of resources!

Municipal EV charging infrastructure from City of Brighton made super simple. Blink and you might miss it! What's the cost per unit to install and maintain it I wonder?

if you are a Canadian EV owner, please take this survey to help the public and policy makers understand the situation in your area pollutionprobe.org/electric-vehic…

Take it all back, tell them off, and fine them for wasting the time of all the politicians and civil servants who crafted the deal!

Just so, Toby Heaps theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

There's a new electric double-decker bus coming to London, carrying up to 96 passengers. It requires less battery capacity than two of these monster SUVs or four F150 Lightnings sustainable-bus.com/news/alexander…

To be more precise - it claims up to 610 km of range added in 15 mins, but requires a charger delivering 410 kW DC - more than any you'll find on roads in NA and Europe. My Ioniq 5 charges about 1/3 that fast on the fastest chargers (350kW) which is already fine, frankly.

Is your electricity provider working on offering home EV charging for free like Octopus Energy is trialling? This actually saves $ because together EV batteries across your grid can reduce demand at peak times. It's the future - are our utilities ready? octopus.energy/power-pack/

"North American automakers have presented China as a sort of Goliath to their David. But the real Davids—Canadians like the family above—just want an affordable EV to make their life a little easier," write Joanna Kyriazis and Rachel Doran 🌎⚡️🌳. New op-ed🍁👇 thestar.com/opinion/contri…

There's an update in the upcoming @CityofStJohns committee meeting on EV charging progress and future options. They're considering spending $300,000 over four years to build 26 more (faster 19.2kWh) L2 chargers - 30% of the cost would be federally funded pub-stjohns.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?I…

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