Is Canada ready for the coming electric vehicle revolution?
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Oh do not worry so....thanks to Samsung phones and youtube videos of flaming electronics we all know when to DUCK AND COVER!
And retailers have already had practice recalling flaming lithium batteries. Best of all- the only people who have been mained or killed by faulty electric vehicle technology are the OWNERS! So maybe we will be safe? Or not since LIE-berals are seeking ways to censor the internet to protect their policies from attack! Kill the messenger is now an essential component of LIE-beral policy! LIE-berals would much rather HIDE the truth than explain it!
Here is an article illustrating how distressed LIE-berals are as all their policies are exposed as costly failures at best and as draconian dictatorship via govt mandated mind control at worst! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Liberals double down on threats to regulate social media.
By Anthony Furey. Published: February 27, 2018. Updated: February 27, 2018 7:27 AM EST
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists/
The Trudeau Liberals are getting serious about their plans to regulate companies like Facebook and appear to be in the early stages of an action plan.
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly brought up the issue recently in person to Facebook Chief Operating Office Sheryl Sandberg, the actual work would fall to Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould.
“Minister Gould has repeatedly stated that while social media companies are taking initial steps to ensure that their platforms are not being used as tools for foreign disinformation campaigns to undermine Canada’s democratic institutions, there still remains a great deal of work to be done,” wrote Nicky Cayer, spokesperson for Gould, in an email to the Sun. “This is a challenge that is being faced by democracies around the world. We are studying other countries’ approaches to see what works and what does not, what would be appropriate in a Canadian context and what — like censoring Canadians’ speech — would be unacceptable.”
(Sadly, LIE-berals have proven themselves only too happy to censor Cdn opinions they do not like- while ignoring foreign influences they do like! Their Human Rights but too often Wrong Kangaroo Courts are busy bullying Cdns for holding anti LIE-beral opinions! One has only to look at the Mississauga man arrested last summer on hate crime charges because he dared to offer money to any person who could provide him with verifiable proof of hate speech taking place in Cdn mosques! Yes- under our LIE-beral mind control police it is illegal to ask for proof of views and opinions that LIE-berals chose not to discuss! Even worse- at the same time- our Nazi style bully boy LIE-berals IGNORED two Cdn reporters who reported in main stream media that there was NO moderate writing on any Cdn based Muslim web site- yes- even in Canada the moderates are being shouted down by radicals- while our LIE-beral overlords harass people seeking proof of the existence of Islamic radicals in Canada!)
While hand-wringing over the term ‘fake news’ became all the rage following the 2016 U.S. presidential election of Donald Trump, there are no major examples of any jurisdiction actually regulating against ‘foreign disinformation campaigns’ for the Liberals to learn from.
French President Emmanuel Macron recently pledged to ban ‘fake news’ during election campaigns, but failed to offer policy specifics. Policymakers’ concerns over the phenomenon aren’t isolated to the West, ranging as far as the Philippines.
(LIE-berals know we don’t like being lied to-but they do it anyway! Letting LIE-berals regulate news is like letting an alcoholic guard the liquor store!)
The most recent examples of regulating or restricting social media tend to involve tackling some version of hate speech, granting tools for users to report what they consider offensive posts. The European Union got tech firms to agree in 2016 to responding to online hate complaints within 24 hours, although studies have shown they’ve had trouble keeping pace.
(Such an approach is doomed to fail- one way or another. For instance- LIE-berals feed us a steady diet of Fake News- anything from reports of our “booming economy” to self promotion of smart meters and auto insurance rates- and yet in each case we see that LIE-berals are NOT telling the truth! Smart meters have NOT saved us money as they have enabled LIE-berals to be more selective about charging premium rates for power. LIE-berals tell us the economy is booming and yet cannot explain why there is that 30 percent jump in use of homeless shelters in Toronto- nor can they tell us why debt in Canada is rising to such dangerous levels if we are so flush with new cash- nor can they explain why it is that health care must be rationed in “booming” Ontari-owe! LIE-berals have also told us their 2017 budget was balanced and our auditor general says that is Fake News that was engineered with accounting methods never taught in any respectable school of business! And we know that LIE-berals consider it hate crime to have people contradict them so laughing at their FAKE economic news IS hate- for them!)
The Liberals haven’t offered up any working definition of what ‘foreign disinformation’ means to them. Despite that, they apparently still see some urgency to the situation, with Gould telling CBC last week that their plan may commence as early as six months from now.
(A couple of years back there were alleged to be a series of sex assaults by Muslims in Germany and Sweden around the new years eve- with the assaults alleged to have been carried out by Muslim immigrants and refugees- would our LIE-berals consider it to be foreign disinformation if Europeans reported that the rapes WERE committed by Muslims? LIE-berals have displayed a disturbing tendency to shoot the messenger bearing unhappy news- and then destroying the messages- unread!)
“Are we going to see something more robust in the next six months?” she said of self-policing by social media giants. “If we don’t see something more robust in the next six months, then we need to take action.”
(LIE-beral willingness to compromise long established rules of law- in exchange for short term show boating intended to buy votes is on display as LIE-berals have tabled legislation that will limit the ability of lawyers to challenge the jury selection process! It is the usual ill considered LIE-beral deal- they do not like the Coulton Boushie jury verdict and so they will destroy the jury selection process that has been in place for hundreds of years- and replace it with BIGOTRY!)
(LIE-berals would disapprove of a Ku Klux Klan racist sitting in judgement on a black man! Yet LIE-berals se nothing wrong with forcing lawyers accept a jury loaded with native bigots sitting in judgement of a white man accused of defending himself from a native thief! LIE-berals consider us all to be systemic racists because 80 percent of Cdns condemn LIE-beral immigration policy and want illegals and Muslim terrorists deported- yet LIE-berals are quite happy to defy our will in this- democracy and justice are on a ONE WAY STREET for LIE-berals- its all for them as they DICTATE what is fair- TO THEM!)
Meanwhile, legislation put forward by Conservative Senator Linda Frum designed to tackle foreign funding to registered third-parties during election season has been languishing for nine months due to inaction on the part of Liberal-appointed Senators.
(In one example of foreign funding, the David Suzuki Foundation has openly admitted to accepting millions of dollars from Yankee “super pac” political organizations in exchange for Suzuki support against Alberta tar sands! If Yankees are so troubled by tar sand oil extraction then why do they not attack the California La Brea tar sand operation in their own country? Is it because they simply want to shut down Alberta so that La Brea oil becomes more valuable when the market shortage hits? And should we not ask the same thing of Yankees giving funds to Cdn environmental groups that want to block pipelines and halt logging operations in Canada- while that same business flourishes in United States? How much funding are Cdn lobbyists getting from foreigners to promote economic activities that will harm Canada- WITHOUT having any effect on the environment? Halting production in Canada and shifting it/expanding it in other jurisdictions will do NOTHING for the environment! But foreign investors WILL benefit from closing Cdn business! )
It’s unclear when Gould will commence next steps and what form those steps will take.
(Yes- LIE-berals must be very careful as they move forward with their selfish and racist dictatorship! They do not want to be caught out blatantly promoting their own version of Hate and Bigotry! Too many Cdns are already angry with LIE-berals over their MANY failed policies- LIE-berals are having their hands tied by angry public opinion that is turning against them on all fronts!)
Yep - it the usual ostrich post. Stick your head in the ground and the terrible electric cars will go away.
He's absolutely right, it is long and boring for him as it would be for anyone who can only read at the grade 2 level and doesn't understand what half the words mean! :lol:
VW planning a $500 million investment in 2,000 fast charging stations in US.
In line with their plan to dominate the battery sector
Walmart, Target partner with VW Group to install electric car chargers - Business Insider
In line with their plan to dominate the battery sector
Walmart, Target partner with VW Group to install electric car chargers - Business Insider
Why dont you put aside the hypocrisy for a few minutes and tell us about the LIE-beral subsidies that are behind electric cars- and the charger installations?
You know the subsidies I mean- the ones that CREATED the electric toy car industry!
And dont go whining about tax breaks for oil production as a distraction! People will buy oil regardless of tax grants- the stuff is too useful!
Reducing taxes on the hugely profitable industry - so you can lure more of those good jobs here is one thing- but offering subsidies to CREATE a totally NEW industry that produces a product that is less reliable due to refueling limitations, has less range due to fueling limitations, carries less cargo then other existing products, is not nearly as green as marketers claim as it simply switches pollution from one type to an other without actually LESSENING the amount of toxic crap being produced, and then add in the fact the govt
CREATED PRODUCT COSTS TWICE AS MUCH AS OTHER PRODUCTS BEFORE WE COUNT THE GOVT GRANTS
-and we can see the electric toy car "industry" is a FRAUD that will disappear along with voter support for LIE-berals!
Perfecting the electric truck before the car would have been the intelligent path to follow.
Getting a man to give up his ICE car is easier than getting a man to give up his ICE truck.
Getting a man to give up his ICE car is easier than getting a man to give up his ICE truck.
Regardless of the end product being perfected, the underlying bottle-neck in this endeavor relates to power storage tech (batteries) absolutely needing to be significantly advanced, the necessary (power distr) infrastructure being in place and reliable sources of electricity above and beyond base load being available.
To be perfectly frank, this is like going forward in constructing and perfecting the internal combustion engine before having any gasoline to power that ICE
To be perfectly frank, this is like going forward in constructing and perfecting the internal combustion engine before having any gasoline to power that ICE
The Graphene Revolution dude. Batteries made from coal. It takes our entire world to the next level in so many aspects.
Our current digital tech is now antiquated.
I'm truly looking forward to it.
Our current digital tech is now antiquated.
I'm truly looking forward to it.
I don't disagree, however, until a functioning prototype is tabled, nothing will have changed in that realm
What with the last Tesla that exploded into a fireball, I should think that they would be all over battery technology
Any LIE-beral can tell you that the definition of insanity is to compulsively doing the same thing over and over again- in vain hope of some other outcome!
And yet Toronto Silly Hall LIE-berals are entering into their THIRD CONTRACT for electric buses! The first two contracts having been disasters might scare off a Conservative but as we know- from an earlier post- actually written by a LIE-beral- the "fear centre" the part of the LIE-beral brain that controls things like impulsiveness and blind optimism is much smaller than normal in other humans- hence the willingness of Toronto fools to waste more gravy on electric toy vehicles!
The ONLY good thing we can say about this latest Silly Hall stupidity is that they only bought 3 buses this time- so they are learning- VERY SLOWLY!
For the lovers of electric toy buses and trucks here is a refresher course on how LIE-berals are being suckered out of OUR money by slick talking creeps who are selling LIE-berals the modern day equivalent of a machine to turn lead into gold :
For those who think that a LIE-beral created electric car business might somehow be good for us- I offer up this older article as rebuttal. With some comments of my own in brackets):
TTC hybrid bus batteries losing their power
Globe and Mail/ Jeff Gray Toronto City Hall Reporter/ Published May 16, 2008
Updated March 27, 2017
The box-like batteries on top of the Toronto Transit Commission's brand new and premium-priced hybrid electric-diesel buses are lasting only half as long as their manufacturer promised.
(So there is the first LIE- that electric vehicles will be reliable!)
They were supposed to last five years, but about a third of the lead-acid battery cells in use in the current fleet of 275 hybrids - which started arriving in 2006 - have already worn out, Gary Webster, the TTC's chief general manager, said in an interview.
(And why use lead acid batteries instead of lithium? Lets guess and suggest that lead-acid will not hold as large a charge as lithium but it will hold it longer- such as when a device is only intermittently used- and lead-acid is probably more resistant to cold than lithium!)
The battery failures come on top of TTC testing that has shown the buses are producing just half the expected fuel savings, using just 10 per cent instead of 20 to 30 per cent less diesel than a conventional bus, although TTC officials expect this number to improve.
(So there is there next LIE! The usual extravagant promises of advertisers that LIE-berals want us to swallow- along with the cost over runs!)
Still, Mr. Webster defends the decision to buy the Orion VII hybrids - which cost $734,000, compared with $500,000 for a conventional bus. He says the TTC and the manufacturer, Daimler Buses North America, are trying to sort out the battery problem, which is covered by the warranty and not costing the TTC money.
(OH! TYPICAL LIE-beral value for money- a fifty percent higher price and drastically reduced performance- what a BARGAIN! And sadly it’s a better deal than electric cars which cost TWICE as much as gas cars!)
"We think the hybrid bus is a good bus. That's the bottom line for us. It's got some issues, absolutely," Mr. Webster said. "... We think we're going to address these issues."
(And others think Webster is dreaming in technicolour about fixing a mess created by inadequate technology being asked to go beyond its natural capacity!)
By year's end, the TTC will have 564 hybrid buses - making up about a third of its bus fleet - with much of the cost of buying them covered by the federal and provincial governments in funding that mandated buses using alternative fuels. Within five years, close to half of the TTC's fleet is scheduled to have hybrid engines.
(AS I have said before- THE ONLY REASON WE HAVE an electric vehicle “industry” is due to LIE-beral bribery of that business! Every time LIE-berals meddle in business for political reasons- huge bills and public failure follow!)
But Adam Giambrone, the city councillor who chairs the TTC, said the battery problems mean the jury is still out on whether the buses were a good investment: "We're still formulating our opinion on the hybrids."
(The jury is “still out” regarding the busses says Giambrone? CLEARLY ONLY LIE-berals are on that jury! Tax payers HAVE decided already! Giambrone later got fired as TTC chair and the David Miller govt that supported him was defeated in a subsequent election!)
He said the hybrid engine could be a "transitional technology" and that down the road, electric buses could come onto the market, or the TTC could, on busier routes, even return to using trolley buses - powered by overhead wires like streetcars - which it abandoned in the 1990s.
(Apparently “transitional technology ” is LIE-beral speak meaning “ we will go ahead with this mess regardless of public disgust and we will ignore public opinion for selfish political reasons!)
Mr. Webster said yesterday that New York has had some similar problems with its fleet of Orion VII hybrids.
(In other words- TTC brass KNEW there would be trouble with the vehicles due to reports from New York City- and yet they chose to forge ahead anyway- buying vehicles that cost FIFTY PERCENT MORE than older vehicles and with the new vehicles seriously lacking in mechanical reliability! This is political meddling on a fantastic and utterly disgraceful scale! The ONLY defense LIE-berals offer us is this: “don’t worry- we are dreaming of a brighter future in which we MAY do better in some future time”!)
But Jake Keyes, a spokesman for Daimler, which runs the former Orion Bus Industries plant in Mississauga where the buses are partly manufactured, said the battery problem was specific to Toronto's buses and has not occurred with its other hybrid buses running in New York and San Francisco.
(The battery problem is unique to Toronto? How so? Did TTC ask for technical changes? Or did Daimler make changes on its own to reduce the price to make the busses more appealing for the Toronto market- did they make battery changes that made unique trouble for Toronto busses? Sounds like public relations advertising and B.S. artists are hard at work to protect LIE-berals and electric vehicle image here!)
The company's newer models include a different, lithium-ion battery that Mr. Keyes said lasts longer, but Mr. Webster said the TTC is not convinced the new battery will fix its problem.
"... We've said to them, 'Happy to consider it, but you've got to prove to us these things actually function,' " he said.
(Proof is very definitely needed at this time! Especially as lithium batteries likely cost more than lead-acid? But that is a hallmark of “emerging” technology- up selling the dis-satisfied customer with new and improved promises until either the customer gives up and shops elsewhere or the company producing the technology goes bankrupt!)
(And here it is ten years on since the first battery busses went into operation- anybody curious how many are still on the road? LIE-berals do not say! And yet we STILL operate electric street cars that are over 50 years old!)
It is common for transit agencies to run into kinks with new vehicles, and the TTC has had problems before, including with vehicles running on compressed natural gas that it bought from Orion Bus Industries in the 1990s.
It has had to scrap 50 of those buses and convert another 50 to diesel, after engine problems, potentially leaky gas tanks and other complaints.
(TTC brass have dealt with and been RIPPED OFF by Orion in the past? AND still TTC bought the latest B.S? Just how bankrupt is Toronto that they would close their eyes and blindly forge ahead secure in the knowledge that it is ONLY federal transfer funding they are WASTING on shaky Orion promises?)
The TTC blames its hybrid buses' fuel-economy problems on the fact that they are being used more on suburban high-speed routes, where hybrid engines are less efficient.
(And NOBODY thought to ASK if suburban high speed routes were suitable for these delicate electric busses with their myriad mechanical shortcomings?)
Once more of the buses are running on stop-and-go congested routes downtown, Mr. Webster says, their fuel economy numbers should go up as the bus can rely more on the electric power it creates with its regenerative braking system.
(IN other words Rube Goldberg just took over management of the faulty and over delicate machinery! HAHAHAHA!!! Busses are supposed to go where the passengers are- NOT where its handy for limited technology to operate! But this IS the LIE-beral version of reality- in socialist eyes it’s the stupid passengers who line up in wrong places that are behind the bus failures! It is NOT the fault of weak and limited technology- so LIE-berals will INSIST!)
The fuel-economy problems, which likely cost the TTC $1.3-million this year, are a small part of what is expected to be a massive rise in diesel costs as a fixed-price contract for fuel runs out at the end of this year.
The TTC estimates that its fuel bill could go to $97-million next year from $65-million this year, and Mr. Webster has said the transit agency may even consider a "fuel surcharge" for riders.
(IN other words TTC took a desperate gamble- betting on the battery busses with their KNOWN limitations in hope that the busses would perform better in Toronto than in New York! This is the usual LIE-beral dilemma- the price of fuel is rising and public tolerance for socialist spendaholics is fading- while socialist politicians NEED more gravy for their Hog allies! So they ganlbed and bought huegly expensive busses in desperate hope that they could save some fuel costs and thus have gravy to pass on to Hogs!)
(And there is ALL of LIE-beral policy and planning in a nutshell- just as self proclaimed and staunch LIE-beral supporter Peter Newman said in his book “When The Gods Changed” that details LIE-beral political fortunes after the Chretien era! LIE-beral pal Newman told us the modern LIE-beral party had no significant values, no real policy, no guiding pricniples or morals- all they now have is a huge lust for power and a conviction they are entitled to be the ruling power! This is why LIE-berals can shrug off the costs of all manner of financial disasters they have thrown on us! LIE-berals are convinced they ARE ENTITLED to over rule us whenever they feel like it! And anybody who disagrees is some sort of racist! Based on current evidence the future will NOT be battery powered!)
And what does that matter to you- your literacy skill is so low you surely cannot own a car or even a license!
Just keep riding your battery buses- the driver will call out the street names for you so you will know where you are!
Here is some more information on the Metrolinx fiasco that Ontari-owe LIE-beral transportation minister Steven Del Duca is trying to sort out-if Metrolinx Hogs will only admit the truth. I present the column by Chris Blizzard on the subject along with some comments of my own in brackets):
Metrolinx arrogant and out of touch. By Christina Blizzard, Queen's Park Columnist. First posted: Monday, August 01, 2016 03:14 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 01, 2016 03:19 PM EDT. (Toronto Sun files)
UP Express subsidy under fire as Metrolinx chairman called government review 'unwelcome'.
Arrogant. Out of touch. Thin-skinned. Out of control. How else can you describe Metrolinx, the troubled agency that was supposed to take transit decisions out of the hands of politicians? They were supposed to be arm’s length in order to make informed and rational decisions about transit.
Clearly, from an e-mail obtained by Toronto Sun political bureau chief Shawn Jeffords, they’re anything but.
The Metrolinx tail is wagging the political dog. The agency that’s supposed to be working for us and accountable through Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca is apparently telling the minister what he can do with his oversight and scrutiny.
Over the last few years, Jeffords has worked tirelessly to hold Metrolinx accountable through a series of freedom-of-information requests that have exposed scandals such as their sponsorship boondoggle, where Metrolinx purchased tickets to sporting events.
(As I have said before-Metrolinx is a TYPICAL LIE-beral creation that thinks it is grossly entitled-and only too happy to share the gravy with other like minded Hogs!)
Without knowing the nature of Jeffords’ story, Metrolinx President and CEO Bruce McCuaig sent an e-mail to Chair Rob Prichard.
“The story might focus on some of the people who have used the tickets and their links to the Liberal party,” McCuaig wrote on Aug. 15, 2013, days before the story was published. It was wild speculation and demonstrates a sensitivity bordering on paranoia about the story.
In fact, Jeffords focused on the program, making no mention of any party links.
In a story in Tuesday’s edition of the Sun, Jeffords has unearthed a letter from Prichard — chair of the high-profile law firm Torys — suggesting intervention by Del Duca is “unwelcome.”
Del Duca had ordered a review of Metrolinx in the wake of devastating revelations by the Sun’s Antonella Artuso about the ludicrous cost of UP Express uniforms and other costly blunders by the agency.
(Again-I point out that Metrolinx Hogs are convinced of their ENTITLEMENT!)
“The minister did speak to me in advance to alert me to his intentions, which I appreciated,” Prichard says in the March letter.
“He did substantially soften and constrain the breadth of his intervention in response to those discussions over the last three days.”
He also talks about “rehearsing” issues from the sponsorship scandal, “which we long ago fixed, but still attract media and Question Period attention.” I think he meant rehashing.
Are you kidding me?
(Yeah, I think Prichard said it right the first time when he spoke of REHEARSING! Its always best for LIE-berals to get their story straight BEFORE meeting the media rather than doing it DURING a media scrum in front of the world!)
A cabinet minister tries to hold an agency with a spotty history of competence to account, and he’s persuaded to scale back that review by the chief cheerleader for Metrolinx.
(It was former LIE-beral premier Dalton McGinty who warned us it was time for LIE-berals to start picking economic WINNERS and LOSERS in Ontari-owe-right after he was elected to that second term! And Wynne-bag seems to be following the McGinty pattern CLOSELY-and we know who the winners are in LIE-beral land!)
So the review has been watered down. From being a meaningful accountability exercise, it’s now merely a whitewash to placate opposition critics and the media. Prichard has completely undermined the review. It absolves him of any suggestion of wrongdoing before the inquiry’s even started.
According to the Sunshine List, Prichard makes $146,000 for his part-time job. McCuaig makes $361,000.
For that kind of money, we should expect better.
Metrolinx has been plagued with these kinds of fiascoes since its inception in 2006.
It has been the focus of numerous auditors’ reports, yet nothing gets better.
In 2012, then auditor-general Jim McCarter reported the cost of delivering the Presto smart card to Toronto-area commuters had nearly tripled to $700 million and said it might be the most expensive such card in the world.
(I wonder how auditor McCarter got away with making such a statement about the costly Presto card while auditor Bonnie Lysyk got called ignorant when she pointed out the flaws in the Ontari-owe- not so- Smart Meters? As the LIE-beral generated economic storm washes over the province we can expect ever meaner comments by LIE-berals as they seek to deflect blame for their fiscal tax and spend madness!)
Metrolinx claims the costly presto card readers are now running well-in spite of earlier complaints but a March 2017 test by City tv reporters found that 5 of 7 card readers at one randomly chosen station were broken! And the situation was not much improved a week later in another test!)
And he warned that over-charging for the UP Express would result in sluggish uptake by passengers. He was correct on all accounts — but ignored by Metrolinx.
Now, thanks to Jeffords. we know why: the transportation ministry is taking its marching orders from the agency it’s supposed to be managing.
Enough’s enough. It’s time to clean house at Metrolinx and get some managers in there who are accountable to their political bosses. Because if they’re not accountable to them, they’re not accountable to us — the taxpaying, transit-taking public.
(I say we should face the truth here: Metrolinx is a TYPICAL LIE-beral creation staffed by people who BELIEVE they are ENTITLED to be at the top of the Sunshine LIST of high govt earners! The one good thing about Metrolinx is this” they have COMPLETED THEIR WORK and they can be DISBANDED! FIRED! CANNED! They have studied our transit system six ways from Sunday and produced all manner of plans ranging from `pie in the sky` to sensible and logical and since there IS NO MONEY TO BUILD ANYTHING-there is NO reason for MORE STUDIES! KILL METROLINX NOW! Forget the govt `review`-we all know it will be a whitewash anyway-just DUMP THE PIGS!)
(The worst of it is this transit mess has tentacles that run in all directions. Lie-beral prime minister Trudope-he of the nice hair and weak fiscal understanding- gave Toronto Transit Commission about 155 Million dollars this spring for `repairs` to TTC system. And as we know federal LIE-berals are desperate to KEEP union votes in Quebec-and several govts have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into Bombardier Quebec-the company that just happens to be years behind on its contract to supply TTC with new streetcars and subway cars. Things got so bad TTC wanted to SUE Bombardier because of all the extra costs they were incurring. But that was before the 155 million LIE-beral gift-should we ask if TTC has been BRIBED not to embarrass Bombardier and LIE-beralsby launching a lawsuit? Just how much careless contract handling can Cdns really afford?)
Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
About 279,000 barrels a day of fuel won’t be needed this year
China adds a London-sized electric bus fleet every five weeks
China had about 99 percent of the 385,000 electric buses on the roads worldwide in 2017, accounting for 17 percent of the country’s entire fleet. Every five weeks, Chinese cities add 9,500 of the zero-emissions transporters—the equivalent of London’s entire working fleet, according Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
By Jeremy Hodges
April 23, 2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/electric-buses-are-hurting-the-oil-industry
About 279,000 barrels a day of fuel won’t be needed this year
China adds a London-sized electric bus fleet every five weeks
China had about 99 percent of the 385,000 electric buses on the roads worldwide in 2017, accounting for 17 percent of the country’s entire fleet. Every five weeks, Chinese cities add 9,500 of the zero-emissions transporters—the equivalent of London’s entire working fleet, according Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
By Jeremy Hodges
April 23, 2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/electric-buses-are-hurting-the-oil-industry