Is Canada ready for the coming electric vehicle revolution?
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That is a bit of a step backwards. A bicycle has 0 carbon footprint (aside from the air the rider exhales). Any battery footprint is an increase.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some LIE-beral trying to defend their electric Toy cars by talking about Tesla automatic braking systems!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While IGNORING the ugly reality that a couple of people DIED while their Tesla cars were on cruise control!!!!!
And consider this costly LIE-beral MESS:
Here is another article illustrating yet another LIE-beral failure as they desperately try to promote their electric car mess- the total screw up that is an extension of their costly mouldy green energy fiasco! With some comments of my own in brackets):
(Ontari-owe LIE-berals have been working very hard to turn our electrical system into a giant slush fund for their pals. First- they offered up huge incentives for builders of wind and solar power generators- that ERASED the property rights of people living near the noisy eye sores! Then LIE-berals sold off a chunk of our electrical system to private investors- meaning select LIE-beral pals- and then drove up electrical costs further to obtain the gravy their investor pals demanded! And now LIE-berals are messing with electric car business- apparently in hope of collecting huge windfall profits by using our tax money to force us out of gas cars and into electric cars that are dependent on the LIE-beral electrical grid- meaning even more profit for LIE-beral electric slush fund!)
(LIE-berals recently set up a contract to get private companies to install and maintain electric car charging stations around Ontari-owe and the results are the usual LIE-beral failure! A new Mississauga based company KSI was chosen to instal and maintain 337 chargers- and in the specified contract period- only slightly over half of them were installed and many of them are said to malfunction regularly- in the same fashion as those failing Presto TTC card readers!)
Among the top EV charging network firms that bid on the contract apart from KSI were Quebec-based Arza Network Canada Inc. which submitted a $14.6-million bid, Toronto’s Plug’n Drive at $16 million and Vaughan’s Autochargers.ca at $20 million. KSI submitted the cheapest proposal at $10.8 million and received final approval for $11.4 million because three other approved funding recipients withdrew from the program and the ministry decided to reallocate that money.
(Three approved bidders dropped out when LIE-berals started fiddling with the subsidies? AS I have said- take away govt subsidies and electric car and mouldy green energy deals DIE! Its only LIE-beral greed keeping this “industry” alive!)
Gleb Nikiforov, the CEO of Autochargers.ca, said he submitted a 2,200-page proposal — 400 pages contained referrals from well-known companies in the electric vehicle industry, including ChargePoint equipment — to install chargers at 100 locations predominantly in the corridors between major cities.
(A 2200 page proposal? Did the ministry not write its own specifications? Or did Nikiforov IGNORE govt specs and write his own? And what makes him think civil service union Hogs are capable of properly assessing his massive document in the available time anyway? Is this an example of B.S. trying to baffle dumb Hogs?)
Nikiforov said the Ministry of Transportation stopped communicating with him two weeks prior to announcing the winning bids — though he says his biggest beef isn’t with ministry officials, but with the unreliability of the company that won.
(Perhaps they stopped talking to him because he wrote his own specs instead of bidding on what govt asked for? LIE-berals are not fit to set up a new industry anyway so how can they deal with the 2200 page Nikiforov business “vision”?)
“We were extremely disappointed. The province could have had the best equipment, which are backed up by the best companies in the market,” said Nikiforov. “We had a very solid proposal. They ceased all communication with us and we weren’t even awarded a single location.
“A lot of municipalities went through the request-for-proposal process after they were awarded the initial funds, so that was weird. How they calculated the money allotted based on that, I don’t know.”
(For LIE-berals everything is about rewarding friends and punishing enemies- a cynic must assume that KSI is a LIE-beral pal! After all- one would have to suspect a low bid- that is nearly ONE THIRD BELOW the next bidder- offered by an inexperienced company- versus a higher bid from a company with lots of experience? Unless you were a LIE-beral seeking to BUY pals?)
Nikiforov speculates the government blindly went with the cheapest bidder, and the cheapest bidder made what may turn out to be a fatal error.
“I think (KSI) went full throttle on it and promised too much and the ministry believed them and they didn’t fulfill their promise,” he said. “Their approach of creating their own software – a small company like that, with that little money, it’s impossible. ChargePoint is the largest company in the industry. They spent $100 million on software to make it work. There’s a Blink network in the U.S. that used the same approach as KSI and they got bankrupted.”
Vic Burconak President of KSI #Mississauga speaking @OntMinTransport event – watch live now https://t.co/YtPSfmkRaT pic.twitter.com/Vi7tHc8jmC
— VVC Productions (@VVCAudioVisual) April 28, 2016
KSI is the brainchild of Vic Burconak, listed on his LinkedIn profile as president and CEO of the company and who describes himself as a “senior business executive with over 25 years of sales and operational experience launching, building and managing businesses.”
“A visionary sales executive with a passion for the ‘hunt’ and proven track record for over achieving goals by implementing strategies that endear clients, drive revenue and secure new accounts,” the profile said. “Outstanding ability to ‘close.’”
(IN other words they guy is a salesman with a glib manner and no real experience with electric cars or their charging systems- nor with the software that runs them and which also allows for automated billing through credit cards!)
The Manitoba native lists himself as a past managing partner of Koben Homes, where he said he flipped homes and condos and then worked for iBuild management software for residential builders and renovators. He also worked as an actor on a Canadian TV series called, Masterminds.
(OH! He is an actor- that will be useful in dealing with LIE-berals! And flipping homes will give so much training for developing costly software! With LIE-berals- everything is about politics and optics- business details are not IMPORTANT!)
According to an Ontario provincial corporation profile report, KSI was incorporated on Oct. 7, 2010, and headquartered at his home on Crestdale Rd. in Mississauga. Burconak registered a new address in a commercial plaza on Dunwin Dr. three years later, according to Industry Canada documents, who list the green energy company with 50 or few shareholders.
Burconak’s estranged sister, Kristyn Kelly, alleges her brother used an inheritance after their parents died in 2012 and 2013 to fund his company. The Sun was shown e-mails regarding the parents’ estate division sent to Kelly using Burconak’s KSI company e-mail.
“He started this business and he doesn’t have any knowledge of electric vehicle charging systems,” she said.
Kelly, 52, said their relationship growing up in Winnipeg was strained. She characterized him as “narcissistic.” She added he doesn’t own an electric car and instead opts to drive “a giant gas-guzzling Dodge Ram pickup.”
(OH! There is a gassed up little detail LIE-berals will NOT want discussed! Their star electric car promoter WILL NOT DRIVE ONE! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
“I think he created KSI solely to make money. He won’t be a success at it,” she said. “He has no experience building these networks … He’s not competent to do this kind of work. He has the initiative to make money, but not to satisfy customers.”
(Oh lets take a cynical guess that even though KSI may never complete its charging installations properly- we may guess that Burconak WILL make money from our ever wasteful Hogs!)
You might have better luck with your posts if you quit shouting at us. We're not all f**king deaf!
Since the text makes no real point it must be assumed that he is nearly blind. Goes hand in hand with being deaf and dumb. Have pity on the handicapped.
I don't think an engineering course is necessary to detect the failings of electric motors. They are good for running sewing machines!
I want a sewing machine that threads itself. Bots should be able to build some cheap add-on for existing machines. I would even promote 'sloppy electric motors in large cities' as the blue sparks give off ozone which turns to O2 in a few hours of being created. Plants might hate it but humans love that gas, the more the better, up to about 35%.
Would anyone here allow an oil company to store their excess gasoline in you car or truck parked in your garage with them sometimes taking back more than they stored?