My problem isn’t just the school commute, it’s waking my kid up. It’s so much easier to wake him up if there’s at least a bit of light on the horizon. Myself too for that matter!
Thanks, Jeff.
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The apparent support for this move is thanks to poorly designed surveys. “Would you prefer permanent DST?” might as well be “would you like days to be longer than nights all year round?” I bet most people don’t realize we’re just talking about shifting earlier or later. Dark mornings suck for kids!
I feel like the Wrangler was the exception not the rule, and even there it was pretty short-lived. Were there any other examples of PHEVs in North America that were the cheapest option? I can’t think of any.
Pretty much all the “PHEVs are rarely plugged in” studies come from Europe. They have two key ingredients over there leading to this: limited home charging access (fewer driveways relative to NA) and incentive structures that sometimes make PHEVs cheaper than gas cars.
My 9 year old looked over at my phone, I assumed he’d be drawn to the Semi, but no: “hey what’s that old bench seat??”
It said the term “self-charging hybrid” at me the other day and I flipped out. Not technically an error, but it should know better than to use that kind of language with me.
I was thinking about all the times I’ve snickered quietly at my drone enthusiast friends, and now I see the career opportunities all over the world to get paid to put on a headset and chase after athletes like it’s a video game except it’s real life…
Oh and Stellantis pulled the plug on Jeep Compass production in Brampton, Ontario 3 months ago. Kinda meaningless now when they say that the ZEV mandate, or Chinese EVs are gonna kill Canadian auto jobs.
It’s quite something to watch the Canadian lobby group for the big 3 complain about this weeks after Pacifica PHEV (Windsor) was cancelled, 3 months after GM killed Brightdrop (Ingersoll), and 18 months after ford killed the 3-row BEV SUV slated for Oakville, Ontario.
@lastweektonight.com it’s a Christmas miracle! My 9 year old has never seen John Oliver, but he drew some elves and one of them is obviously John Oliver. Happy holidays, John! Watch out for the ninja elf with the candy cane nunchucks!
Not sure if this became “a thing” with anybody else, but we’re currently in a “peak event” with Hydro Quebec where our electricity goes up to $0.45/kWh, and my wife and I agreed that we could “stokes” the oven and let our leftovers coast to their final temperature @leahstokes.bsky.social
It was a fleeting glimpse, too quick to snap a photo, but it was a bit after we saw these sheep, to give you an idea of the environment.
Yeah!! Evelyne and I were on a three day hike in Norway, a bit south of Trondheim. It was scuttling after a reindeer mama and her baby. We thought it was a wolverine, but weren’t sure they had them in Norway. And then we got to the train station and they had a stuffed wolverine on display.
Just looked up the western tanager 😍😍😍
We’ve seen scarlet tanagers around our place once in a while, they’re gorgeous too. Though my favourite birds to listen to are hermit thrushes, wood thrushes and swainson thrushes. And I REALLY I miss hearing their west coast cousin the varied thrush!
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Totally agree!!!! I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole a few weeks back trying to understand how non-digital TV works, got as far as “mechanical television”: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani...
For example, EVs could be given an extra allowance since their extra mass has other benefits. Montreal already has annual parking pass fees based on mass, with EVs getting mass brackets that are 250-300kg higher for the same price.
But my point is that a pure mileage based tax would miss this dimension entirely. You could incorporate vehicle mass into a formula with adjustments as needed to deal with non-linear scaling, ICE vs EV to land on a price signal that’s deemed fair.
Weight is currently implicitly captured in fuel consumption and gas tax, at least to a degree. Larger vehicles buy more fuel per mile and therefore contribute more in taxes. It’s not perfect because you’re right that impact on road scales much faster than fuel consumption with vehicle size.
Having the mileage based fee scale based on vehicle mass would be a way to capture efficiency and impact on roads, as long as there’s a different scale for each powertrain type to recognize that EVs, while heavier, are much more efficient.
Agreed, to me it’s always just been a question of timing, ie not coming in too hard on fees when we’re still trying to kickstart adoption. We’re getting there on adoption, so I think a modest fee can help squash any anti-EV sentiment on the basis that they’re not paying their fair share.
I would be surprised given the tariff situation. Flo only closed one of two factories in Shawinigan: ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217...
It’s so reassuring to see this happen as a counterpoint to whatever the US is doing to itself. Also, as a guy with a very limited self improvement track record, I’m just proud that I can place all 20 of those countries onto the map with 100% confidence, all thanks to rigorous daily Worldle training.
Not as bad as underestimating India’s electricity consumption by a factor of 9,000,000, but who’s counting??
In fairness, you can see in my screenshot that the 3kWh was contradicting its own answer just above, 0.3Wh. You know, the ol’ “factor of 10,000” mixup, could happen to anyone.
And then it told me that 3kWh is 20,000x the annual consumption of a person in India. So call it 1.5B people, each using 3/20,000 per year, 225 MWh per year for all of India??? That’s a 25kW generator running the world’s most populous country. Thanks Google!! Simultaneously crazy in both directions!
3kWh per search. So if the average person does 10 searches per day, that’s 30kWh per day, or about 3x as much as they’d consume with an EV over a typical daily commute. I guess the grid should handle EVs just fine if we’ve already been able to accommodate that much demand from Google.
Whether they’re telling the truth or not, it’s an improvement in that the results I got previously are obviously nonsensical for anyone with at least a bit of a grasp of scale of energy numbers.
