Somebody has to keep the power transmision lines from hydro and roads open for natives, miners, weirdo off griders and tree poachers.
Electric shock: A new study found that EVs were more expensive to fuel than gas-powered cars at the end of 2022
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Once upon a time, the logging companies did that themselves. Now, some FSRs are "maintained" by highways, some by logging companies that use them, some by MoF, and most not at all. And we have a few querky ones on the Island that as far as I know don't exist anywhere else. We have highways that off highway logging tucks use. Nice wide lanes to accomadate 14 ft wide trucks. Top of Gibsons mountain to Pt Alice, and Gold River townsite to the ocean. Kemano, which is really odd, because the only thing there is the power generation for Kitamat smelter, which has a crew of about 12 in camp. About 13 km from the dock to camp.
Long time since there , North Island was a forgotten Eden , sounds like that is changing .
Pt Hardy really went for a shit after the mine closed. Finally got a decent Coast Guard station. Lots of government offices, mostly staffed by people with social work degrees telling the rest of the survivors how they should become self employed. I was up there for several daays about this time last year repairing the old Robert Scott School. It is now about half daycare and half social worker offices. Seagate is gone. The pub is now storage. Tbird pub is a church, but the hotel part is still running.
Wow the Seagate was like home for three months and when not there at the TBird . Some changes are not for the better . Can’t remember the name but there used to be a lounge on the hill up from Seagate .
I think it must have been North Shore . It was not the Seagate Pub it was on a side road looking east over the park and Seagate wharf .
Good for you to get out and participate in what must be fabulous country. Some day maybe for me. I did make Kitimat and Port Rupert 6 or so years ago.
We're good here in NW Ontario with pretty well nothing but lakes to explore and play. Lots of near to surface Canadian Shield with plenty of outcrops for the geology buffs. And logging roads that go forever.
Could be the age demographic only driving a few times a week that has me thinking cars are being used less as well.
The Trudeau government’s EV strategy expressed a legitimate ambition, but it does not appear to have weighed seriously the prospect that EV demand was not inevitably going to be governed by hockey stick economics — that is, slow growth followed by a sudden, sharp and sustained increase. Trudeau’s imprudence was apparent in the whopping nature of the subsidies.
Wednesday’s report from the financial news site Nikkei Asia that Honda has suspended its plan to build a $15-billion electric vehicle plant in Ontario indefinitely comes as no surprise — particularly not to the federal government, which was told in January, sources say.
Carney says 'challenges' face auto sector after Honda reportedly pulls out of EV plant in Ontario — National Post
The plant in Alliston, Ont., was supposed to become operational in 2028 and would have produced up to 240,000 EVs annually
Adam Chambers, the Conservative international trade critic, told reporters on Wednesday that the subsidies on offer by Ottawa induced some manufacturers to move traditional vehicle production outside of Canada to make room for subsidized electric vehicles
, and now the market isn’t there for them. “Instead of rethinking their entire policy, they (Liberals) are doubling down,” he said. “You saw last night, the Japanese ambassador suggesting that access to the U.S. market for automakers is integral to having production here. If we don’t have access to the U.S. market, we do not have an industry.”John Ivison: Trudeau’s big EV bet is officially a flop — National Post
Without Biden, the Canadian EV policy made little sense. It makes even less sense when Canadian exports to the U.S. are hit by tariffs
Experts say no shit Sherlock .The Trudeau government’s EV strategy expressed a legitimate ambition, but it does not appear to have weighed seriously the prospect that EV demand was not inevitably going to be governed by hockey stick economics — that is, slow growth followed by a sudden, sharp and sustained increase. Trudeau’s imprudence was apparent in the whopping nature of the subsidies.
Wednesday’s report from the financial news site Nikkei Asia that Honda has suspended its plan to build a $15-billion electric vehicle plant in Ontario indefinitely comes as no surprise — particularly not to the federal government, which was told in January, sources say.
Carney says 'challenges' face auto sector after Honda reportedly pulls out of EV plant in Ontario — National Post
The plant in Alliston, Ont., was supposed to become operational in 2028 and would have produced up to 240,000 EVs annuallyapple.news
Adam Chambers, the Conservative international trade critic, told reporters on Wednesday that the subsidies on offer by Ottawa induced some manufacturers to move traditional vehicle production outside of Canada to make room for subsidized electric vehicles
John Ivison: Trudeau’s big EV bet is officially a flop — National Post
Without Biden, the Canadian EV policy made little sense. It makes even less sense when Canadian exports to the U.S. are hit by tariffs
“What we think is that, from a government perspective, they found an agreement between the Canadian government and the Chinese government, [so] there will be also an agreement between the U.S. government and the Chinese government,” says Trantini.
I drove the first made-in-China EV coming under the new quota. It’s not what you think — The Globe and Mail
The Lotus Eletre SUV is likely not the cheap alternative many drivers were hoping for
Lotus is not yet selling the standard Eletre in the United States, where high tariffs still exist against Chinese EVs. It did, however, import 30 Carbons to the U.S. and sold every one, tariffs and all. They were priced at US$225,000 and each one was optioned up to US$245,000, which is about $90,000 above our price. The only difference was the paint colour and that American models had carbon-ceramic brakes. Clearly, we’re getting a much better deal than our neighbours to the south. Hell of a test drive.
Cheaper cars from makers such as BYD and Chery are not yet confirmed, but Canada’s trade agreement with China calls for 49,000 vehicles to be imported by next March at a tariff of 6.1 per cent. This number will rise to 70,000 a year by 2030, with at least half of them priced at $35,000 or less, but for now, it’s first come, first served, and these Eletres are part of that initial 49,000.
Base price/as tested: $119,900/$179,000, plus freight and pre-delivery inspection, plus fees and taxes including the luxury tax
Motor/Battery: 675-kilowatt dual-motor, 800-volt architecture/112 kilowatt-hour
Horsepower/Torque: Standard: 600 hp/524 lbs.-ft.; Carbon: 905 hp/726 lbs.-ft.
Drive: All-wheel drive
Power consumption (NRCan ratings)/Charging capacity: 27.4 kilowatt-hours/100 kilometres/355 kilowatts (CCS)
Curb weight: 2,565 kilograms (=5655lbs). The 1978 Cadillac Coupe de Ville had a base curb weight of approximately 4,163 to 4,270 pounds with its standard engine being a 425ci (7.0L) V8 for perspective.
Range (claimed): Standard: 400 kilometres; Carbon: 385 kilometres
Alternatives: Porsche Cayenne EV, Porsche Macan EV, Audi Q8 e-tron, BMW iX, Mercedes-AMG EQE, Lucid Gravity, Tesla Model X
Lotus is first to sell its Chinese EV here because it was all ready to go for North America when it was stalled by 100 per cent U.S. tariffs introduced by the Biden administration in May 2024. Canada followed with similar 100 per cent tariffs five months later. Lotus is majority-owned by China’s Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., and the cars were already being built at a huge assembly plant in Wuhan. They’d been homologated – tested and approved for sale – for North America, but became untenable when the price doubled.