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    Prius Prime - U.S. sales of 30,000 per year?

    I actually SAW a plug-in Prius Prius at my local dealer! It was a special order. I have never seen it on the road, or seen ANY on the road in Canada.
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    Musk confirms Panasonic cells only in Tesla cars

    JUST the S, X and 3. Nothing about past (Roadster) or future (?) models using batteries from a different source. Even if they don't, they 'might'. You have to be very precise about the interpretation of EM's runic utterances. If he didn't say exactly that, he didn't say it.
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    Canada's energy superpower status threatened as world shifts off fossil fuel

    Canada is a net exporter of power, but we have unresolved distribution issues all over the place. There is no complete west-east pipeline for oil (yet? I tend to think that the Canada East pipeline will be a dog's breakfast financially IF it is ever built ) and so we export oil to the US/via the...
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    Peak oil by 2030?

    Joe Romm is right as he usually is. The 'peak' idea (of anything) has long been misunderstood as being the maximum production point ever, beyond which it drops off inexorably. More correctly, it should be understood as the 'maximum output ever at the price you want or are willing to pay'. So...
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    2017 Chrysler Pacifica (Minivan) PHEV 30 mile AER

    "Perpindicular Parking"? What is that? Does it have anything to do with 'traxyon control'?
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    Elon: Model 3 production will start at the end of 2017

    Umm, no. I'm Canadian and I understand US tax credits better. From what I've seen, its full credits (to the extent of individual tax circumstances) on the first 200,000 cars SOLD in the USA (not worldwide production/sales) After that, it ramps downwards much like the situation in Denmark in...
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    Tesla announced 17,400 deliveries in Q4, with 208 Model X

    Ummm...that is correct about the BEV part, but have you forgotten Kaiser-Frazer (later Kaiser-Willys) which sold about 730,000 cars from their main plant in Willow Run, Michigan, but also from their other plants in Leaside, Ontario; Portland, OR; Long Beach, CA; Haifa, Israel; Rotterdam...
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    New york times-ev incentives

    Yes, but unlike Canada (as just one small example) Norwegians have treated their oil and gas industry from the very beginning as a resource that is here for a good time, not really a long time. It has made all the right moves over a few decades to ensure that hundreds of years after the last...
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    Porsche Mission E

    Thanks for the only the second really laugh out moment today.
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    Why 'Fool' Cells.... WHY?

    Again going back to Fuel Cells for a second, they CAN be BRILLIANT but not 1) anything other than hydrogen in something the size and mobility of a vehicle from a large transit bus or smaller, or 2) hydrogen as a fuel for any use other than intrastellar/interstellar usage. IF it were technically...
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    Why 'Fool' Cells.... WHY?

    You might say that the CHARGE is inevitable :-) :-)
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    Why 'Fool' Cells.... WHY?

    Bangor Bob + n+1 :-) Actually, to my way of thinking, the only FCV what would make ANY sort of sense at all in the least, would be one with a plug, as in a plug-in Prius, instead of a Prius which a Mirai is--an expensive, cramped, slow Prius. Why? well, its like the old joke but backwards...
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    Millennials Opt For Used Tesla Model S

    Cooler...and better. Better always works for me, and I'm a lot older.
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    BMW i3

    I have a friend who at one time got the most incredible deal on a lease of a new Pontiac Aztec...black on black on black. The dealer begged Dave to take it off his hands because no-one else would. Dave needed a large lease vehicle for a couple of years, and this loaded to the gills vehicle was...
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    Model X Mule Sightings

    For all the kvetching about the various mules, and camera distortion, there is no way in the universe that any version of the X actually looks in the least like an Aztec. I kept close company with a black Aztec for a while that a friend had on a short lease at seriously giveaway rates because...
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    Tesla announces 5-year lithium ion research deal with Dalhousie University

    Now, just to link up Halifax, the largest and richest city on the East Coast of Canada, with the rest of Canada and the US. Just need that one Supercharger in Bangor ME, and the Superchargers in Woodstock NB, Moncton NB and Truro NS to accomplish that link via I95 to the US, and the Transcanada...
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    Toyota 'Mirai' Fuel Cell Sedan

    I was considerably closer to THIS event than 3 city blocks when it occurred. Fortunately I was at work when it happened. It was caused by a very slowly leaking propane Taxi parked overnight beneath the three store townhouses/condos. (garage space was on one level, and was in common with all the...
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    We need our word for 'vroom!"

    or "Zzzzzzzzzingggg!"
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    Transitioning home heating from carbon fuel burning to electricity

    I'll chime in. I built a new house in 2008 with oil fired boiler in-floor warm water heating. The oil boiler is now gone. Instead, I have solar hot water panels for my hot water at ZERO cost per year (was heated by the oil boiler before), a solar air heater at an electricity for fan cost of $15...
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    PowerWall and "The Missing Piece..." Event

    My feeling is that battery supply is no longer constrained for vehicle production (see up thread for reasons) and like many others that "it" will be related to home storage..but likely with a twist in a good sense. Corollary 1: Production of vehicles might be able to be increased...
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    Tesla Gigafactory

    I have seen some speculation to the effect that what is being contemplated is very similar to your chart, so that there are in effect 5 (identical?) side by side start to finish production lines than can all be finished off and producing on different time scales. Done that way, the date in...
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    Prius Camper

    Wonderful! (as long as its parked. It IS a camper...)
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    Supercharger growth

    I noticed three big changes for the East Coast of Canada, 2 in 2015 and one in 2016. It seems there is one in Quebec City/Levis and one in Riviere-du-Loup on the Trans Canada 20 (take as given the correct accents--this computer refuses to show them). Then in 2016 one at Woodstock New Brunswick...
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    Supercharger growth

    France can be a challenging environment to get any infrastructure--a phone line, a water line, an internet link, a power line--installed. Going from the reports of friends, it might be why the French excel at diversions--wines, cheeses, cuisine, revolutions. :biggrin:
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    Near annual replacement of 12V battery is typical according to Tesla Service Tech

    Is there any other battery type that should last longer given the existing parameters than lead acid deep cycle? Li-ion perhaps? But, why not NiMH? After all, Prius NiMH batteries seem to last upwards of 400,000-600,000 km (250,000-375,000 miles) and years of use in taxi fleets in Vancouver BC.
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    We Hear: Slew of German EVs Will Battle Tesla Model S

    So really, all those headlines slavvering over the German (vapourware to now) "Tesla Killers!" should have been more accurately named "Prius Killers!" :-)
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    Cheap Gas vs. Supercharging

    True, and I have been able to get over 2.7L/100 km =104 (Imperial) mpg = 86+ US mpg many times in the Prius, but at the end of the day, and dawn too, its still an ICE, its no fun to drive at its best and my most tolerant, and when I consider what I've spent on cars over recent years, I could...
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    Cheap Gas vs. Supercharging

    I just realized that at today's lower prices, I'd still save over $2,000 a year--even driving a Volt or an Energi let alone a Tesla--over driving my Prius C. (I take talking books on discs or cell when I drive in it, because even the shortest trip feels like forever.) But, besides hyper-miling a...
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    What's the Ideal EV Battery Size?

    I drive an ancient Jetta TDI 300,000 km which has a lifetime of 45+ US mpg, and a Prius C with 52+ ditto. I got the C over the Prius plug in because..11-13 miles?? For an extra $15,000? Shame because if Toyota sold a '21-25 mile on electricity' car for the same price as its competition that gets...