A Lot of EV Misinformation on the Radio and Facebook
Rant to Stacie and Joel of Play 92 for spreading misinformation about electric vehicles on their show today. It can’t be easy to rant professionally on the radio every day,…
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EV1 History
Charge Across America in the late 1990s was a forerunner to Sun Country Highway’s cross-continental EV trip with a Tesla Roadster at charging stops it set up all across Canada…
Updated for 2026: Civic Hatchback vs. LEAF Hatchback
This is a continuation of my series showing what it costs to buy a used EV instead of a comparable used gas car. I think most people have the wrong…
Real Time Street Level Vehicle Exhaust Emission Monitoring
A team of researchers have used the NYC traffic congestion charge as a place to test out some of their hypothesis. Spoiler: the city got better and air quality improved.…
Cleaning Urban Air is Simple and These Cities Have Already Done it
Since 2010 19 major cities have “remarkably” reduced their pollution so much that it some people are shocked by it. The tracked pollutants have dropped by 20% or more in…
Coat Caper
My coat was stolen while at Trifons on Friday night, but their staff were able to identify who did it from security footage. From their ID of their regular customers…
One Republic
I went to the Central Branch of RPL tonight for a Bike Regina podcast recording. While there I picked up a pile of CDs including One Republic The Collection. Hearing…
CBC and CPC Disinforming Public on EVs
I’m hesitant to share this video link. The problem is, someone might watch it, and not realize everything she says is untrue. This problem is amplified by the CBC not…
Heat wave
#climateChange
Wheres there’s smoke…
#ldnont, #cars, #fire
EV Tax Goes Up
It’s been a hard month for people with electric vehicles. Not only do many face unfair criticisms for having Tesla vehicles before the company CEO came out as a racist…
Boxing Day 2024
What happened today? I was driven around Regina while the Youngest kiddo and his friend went Boxing Day shopping in the Cornwall Centre. We then went to south Albert St.…
Electric Car Interest Is NOT Going Down
New ZEV registrations are up in every reporting province from 2023 2nd quarter to this year’s second quarter. People who say that “interest in EVs is decreasing”, are simply lying…
Updated for 2024: Civic Hatchback vs. LEAF Hatchback
In 2019 I wrote a guide for people to help them decide which vehicle type saved them more money: an affordable used EV with a solar panel grid-tied system, or…
Pro-Car Planning is Destroying Collingwood’s Environment
I warned you: Council would support the anti-resident/anti-environment/pro-vehicle attitude that pervades town hall. I warned you they would deforest Sixth Street to make it a bigger, faster speedway for vehicles.…
Traffic Calming: Not My Job Say Town Staff
No residents have been successful in three years in meeting all the town’s absurdly stringent requirements for investigation of the installation of even rudimentary traffic calming in their neighbourhoods. That’s…
Johns Hopkins: Narrow Lanes Save Lives
Johns Hopkins has reached a conclusion: to protect lives we need to narrow lives. Cars kill. Cars (and the people driving them) are more likely to cause death when they…
Mobile Pollution Boxes Need to Pay to Enter Manhattan
Cars take up a lot of space in urban centres and deprive non-car owners of previous real estate and a clean environment. Yet, for years we have let car drivers…
Speed Cameras = Safer Streets
I live in a city where the police stopped enforcing traffic laws, so we’ve seen increased harm done by car drivers on people outside of cars. When the laws of…
Idle Math
Your gas car burns at least 0.5gal/h while bigger trucks can burn .8gal/h of fuel when just sitting there running doing nothing for transportation. 0.5gal is 1.89L. That’s 1.89 *…