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Who is going to do it but Ukraine? Nobody else has the cojones.

What exactly is "early"? Which model years? And given that the Model 3 and Model Y are what really grew Tesla sales, the percentage of those "early" batteries are going to be a single digit percentage at this point. I decided to check with Gemini. Being generous and suggesting that...

Slam me if you want. But I see way to many conservative influencers who are just short of saying we deserve this. And Pierre doesn't seem to shut them down. It's the same effect when loud Liberal voices were about woke everything.

Maybe. But 5 mins on Twitter will remind you who the base is. And let's just say they are not attractive to moderates right now with their simping and apologetics for the US.

They also faired terribly in the TTC's multiyear trial of electric buses in Toronto. If course, New Flyers was the best. This is a study used by most Canadian and US transit authorities to buy electric buses. Plenty more at the source: TTC eBus Study: Final Results But I guess if...

What exactly would that "win" even look like? If it's all out regime change? Zero chance without a ground invasion. They tried that. Did everybody just forget the early days where they talked about arming the Kurds and then the Iranians hit the Kurds really hard? Also, there's claims that...

Not sure where you are getting this from. But I have found nothing that says Tesla batteries are prone to failure after 12 years. Tesla does warranty the pack and drive unit for 240 000 km. I suspect that's where this 12 years number comes from. But there's now millions of Teslas on the...

I don't deny the projects are complicated. But meeting demand is just a market function. Not a question of how complex a given project is. Also, we're in a world where 85% of all new power generation added are renewables. A substantial portion of which is solar. Sure, not all need is going...

Sedans in general are really struggling, in the developed world. In 2019, Honda sold over 300k Civics worldwide. Last year 155k. Canada went from 60k Civics in 2019 to 31k last year. Unfortunately the new car market is shifting more and more to older and wealthier buyers who care less...

Not really. See the video I posted above comparing different countries. There's a whole lot of variation on why some countries move faster or slower on adoption. In our case, we don't even get offered the range of models that the average European or Australian has available. Obviously if the...

And peak can be shaped by policy. Too much solar? Incentivize cheap rates to shift consumption to daytime. See parts of Australia giving a few hours of free electricity per day at peak. https://www.energy.gov.au/news/new-energy-plan-daily-window-free-electricity

Yep. We are going to double or triple the amount of generation by the end of the century. There's the ones you mention. Then there's megaprojects like Wind West. Turns NS into the Saudi Arabia of offshore wind. The full Wind West proposal is equivalent to a quarter of Canada's total...

This is what is intriguing. Nobody knows what will happen. But we can see from Norway that they've had a precipitous decline in the number of gas stations that started long before EVs even got there. Vehicles becoming fuel efficient alone dented demand. In Canada, this was countered by...

People have this weird idea that everything with EVs is automatically an existential problem. When the number of gas cars sold went up, there was no Helen Lovejoyesque panic about where the oil would come from. And that's a finite resource. But with something that has marginally more power...

Same place electricity came from in the 70s, 80s and 90s when air conditioning became more common. We grew the grid to meet that demand. And EVs are generally speaking not much more than a residential AC unit, if you're charging at home overnight. We're also growing the grid for things like...

I mean the joke earlier wasn't wrong. The Tac Avn restructure with nTACS will make the LIR highly mobile and substantially air assault capable.

I actually think they are allocated that.....

What I'm substantially intrigued by is all the land that will be freed up in urban and suburban areas by gas stations. They usually have prime locations. Wonder if they'll just become a car wash with a convenience store? How many will get redeveloped? High EV adoption starts driving gas...

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How many years ago was that? Charging speeds have dramatically improved in even past 5 years. A decade ago, fast charging was 50 kW. These days, new fast charging stations are built with 400 kW chargers. Even the cars have seen dramatic increases in charging speed. One specific example...