Summary

Norway’s annual El Prix winter EV test assesses real-world electric vehicle range and charging performance in extreme cold (down to –27 °C), under conditions comparable to those in Canadian winters.

Chinese electric vehicles performed strongly, ranking among the top ten models for cold-weather efficiency and fast charging due to improved battery preconditioning and thermal management.

Results challenge assumptions about Chinese EVs, showing rapid gains in build quality and winter reliability, while leaving long-term ownership experience as the remaining open question

Quality explanation.

Computer needs practice to get program right.

It took fourteen years. That’s way too long.

A delightful character arc.

I’m betting a corporate slavery jihad of environmental degradation.

Look out, San Diego!

What am I seeing here?

Can you explain more about the temporary part?

Quebec’s language French-only/prominent language laws were enacted in the 90s. I believe they used the notwithstanding clause to prevent charter challenges. As far as I understand, those laws are still in effect twenty-ish years later. How does that work?

I’m curious if they’d be able to have that conversation in Poilievre’s Conservative Party. From what the previous floor crossers have said, there isn’t much room for disloyalty.

I suspect that Quebec would have quit Canada decades ago if they hadn’t been able to implement their language laws.

I’d argue that keeping the country together is a good outcome. It’d be nice if it could have been achieved without making the Charter of Rights and Freedoms optional.

Carney’s Liberals have policy positions very similar to the Conservatives. He isn’t performatively woke, like Trudeau. He’s happily scrapped the carbon tax, and he’s stopped pushing for polluters to pay. He’s even making noises about supporting Alberta’s extraction industries.

I suspect all but the most rabid Conservatives would be happy if Poilievre was doing exactly what Carney is up to.

I suspect the Conservatives are moving over because

• Carney’s Liberal Party is very compatible with them and their constituents. He’s removed the few environmental protections Trudeau added, and can’t be painted with the woke brush. He’s quietly propping up Alberta and the fossil fuel industry.
• the last election was close and they still lost - they assume there will be enough swing voters in their ridings that they could win the next election
• as a majority becomes more likely, they get to be part of government - and have 3 years for voters to forget they crossed the floor,
• enticements, no matter how small.

54,000 containers left Montreal last month.

That’s like 1,800 a day. Say it takes one hour to open a container, investigate it sufficiently without disturbing the contents, then that’s 225 working days of investigation every day.

Assuming the port has the infrastructure to allow that kind of investigation, they’d need like 300 employees to do that work.

EDIT: that would probably work out to 30-50 million in personnel, support, and infrastructure costs annually. They’d probably need to pay a bunch more money to retrofit those facilities into the port.

Would it be worth it? Maybe. But nobody wants to foot that bill.

They can. That’s what the notwithstanding clause is for.

It’s a really strong lock. It has to be.

might drink and drive gallop