Ian 🚲🏳️🌈🚙⚡️ retweeted
Really important charts from @colinmckerrache and @hyper_drive today
1. Internal combustion engine car sales peaked 6 years ago (and are now about where they were in 2010!)
2. China ICE car sales also peaked 6 years ago
EVs are the auto industry's growth
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
After what I think has been a pretty successful decade in creating & implementing EV and Climate Policy, I've decided to take a break. Starting today I'm heading off on a 6-month sabbatical. Will try to keep my tweets sparse, pointless and bike-oriented.
Once more for the folks in back: bringing your own mug is not a climate solution!
Do it anyway because trees and oceans are great and landfills aren’t.
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Ian 🚲🏳️🌈🚙⚡️ retweeted
There's never been a better time to consider electrifying your fleet! Attend one of our webinars for fleet managers to learn more:
February 16: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
February 23: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
March 9: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Tune in now to see how we're doing!
#VanCityCouncil on agenda item 1: Presentation: Second Annual Climate Emergency Implementation Update, link to presentation: ow.ly/6ZsG50MTh2p
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Exciting news! Courtesy of IHS Markit, ONE IN FOUR new vehicles purchased in Vancouver (CMA) last quarter was an EV! All of Canada saw 8.9% of sales, which is where Vancouver was just a few years ago. Tipping point, coming soon... spglobal.com/mobility/en/res…
Auto insurance seems like a pretty strong candidate for privatization. Why exactly is auto insurance (and hence the risks from auto use) socialized in BC when home and renters insurance isn't? #priorities dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-t…
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It’s happening! Excited to see the permanent #slowstreets barriers going in at 12 t & St George #Vancouver
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Ian 🚲🏳️🌈🚙⚡️ retweeted
I see @Toyota's chief scientist Gill Pratt everywhere with his seemingly 'sober' claim that scarce lithium should be used in small batteries for hybrid cars (that Toyota is market leader in of course).
He's calling out "EV-only extremists".
And it's such utter bollox.
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Ian 🚲🏳️🌈🚙⚡️ retweeted
Active transportation on the chopping block in the District of #northvan. The agenda for Mondays workshops shows key safe route for people biking between #LynnValley, #LynnCreek and #DeepCove off the table, while road widening on Dollarton Hwy is added.
Ian 🚲🏳️🌈🚙⚡️ retweeted
. @FishOceansCAN, which has 1,500 vehicles in 400 bureaus across the country, had bought two electric @chevrolet Bolts in 2019. But last September, it added three @Tesla Model 3s and six @FordCanada F-150 Lightning trucks.
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Ian 🚲🏳️🌈🚙⚡️ retweeted
"We need to dig up millions of tonnes of minerals for clean energy".
Sounds big.
Except we're digging billions of tonnes of fossil fuels out every year. That's what we're trying to replace.
My latest Substack: hannahritchie.substack.com/p…
Take a deep breath, Senator. Seriously. While you're cooking on that gas stove in your house that you cook on.
This is a recipe for disaster. The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner. I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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I get told at least once a week that EVs are not a panacea.
Since I'm doing this year's work planning anyway, can someone who actually works on panaceas please let me know how that's going?
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City I dislike: Houston
City I think is overrated: Rome
City I like: Vancouver
City I love: Florence, Tokyo
City I feel most myself in: Vancouver (but also weirdly NYC)
City I still need to visit: Vienna
City I dream of living in: Paris
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Ian 🚲🏳️🌈🚙⚡️ retweeted
The @CSA_Group's core recommendations to improve Canada’s EV charging network includes deploying charging through equity lens, incorporating accessible designs, ensuring reliability for drivers and promoting inclusive payment options.
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Ian 🚲🏳️🌈🚙⚡️ retweeted
9,000 pound trailer, 3,112 miles visiting family and friends, average of 1 mile per kWh. Furthest drive 130 miles on 1 charge. Free charging at campgrounds every night. @ElectrifyAm network was solid. Family quality time priceless. @jimfarley98 @tedcannis @mrlevine @ebergg
Every time you hear a diesel bus, it's the sound of people choosing to ignore the climate emergency.
If you still take the bus but it doesn't feel right anymore, advocate for a systemic end to public transit. /s
Every time you hear an airplane, it's the sound of people choosing to ignore that there's a climate emergency.
If you still fly but it doesn't feel right anymore, advocate for a systemic end to the aviation industry. This would help shift society into emergency mode.
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But also, advocate for regulating the aviation industry. Push for carbon pricing, better fuels, electric and hydrogen planes (they already exist at the very small scale), and advocate for electric passenger rail, especially in North America where it's basically non-existent.
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