Thanks, Jeff. If your organization can also benefit from partnerships and collaborations within the EV space, you can learn more about becoming an EMC member here: emc-mec.ca/membership/

@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

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Wolverine Flying squirrel Ratfish Haida Gwaii black bear Fin whale

Vehicle-grid Integration (VGI) can play a crucial role in helping utilities manage the growing electricity demand from electric vehicles, but Canada’s fragmented and inconsistent policy landscape risks slowing adoption. Read on: buff.ly/VhnqM7s #ElectricVehiclesCanada #EVPolicy #V2G #VGI

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.

I believe it was @johnvoelcker.bsky.social who was saying just the other day that it was odd that spy photos of the new Bolt hadn’t popped up yet. It’s like you willed these photos into existence, John!

Great podcast about PG&E’s approach to innovation, but, despite my fear of being cast away to the island full of nerds who “but actually” talented communicators on the internet, I need to make sure @volts.wtf stops mixing up Volts and Amps. I mean, it’s the name of the damn podcast right??

Is it a problem that I recognize which charger this is in the photo despite not having used the charger in question since maybe 2015? (Vancouver, Beach Ave - one of the ones installed with the mini cell towers)

It’s absurd to draw a line between PHEVs with greater or less than 80km of range, but not draw a line between HEVs and <80km range PHEVs. Yes, strong PHEVs are good, yes there’s a risk that short range PHEVs don’t get plugged in, but there is a 100% chance that HEVs are 100% powered by fossil fuels.

A tank driving slowly down a street turns out not to be all that interesting. And tanks 2-50 don't really add much to the spectacle. It's like no one really thought this through.

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Devoting so much land to growing corn for ethanol is dumb and counterproductive. Converting just over 3% of this land to solar would produce more energy, reduce irrigation and fertilizer needs and be a financial benefit for farmers www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...

Cool story about a community in Nunavut that will be able to turn off the Diesel Generators during the summer months, thanks to solar energy installations: "Our current generations will be able to hear the silence that our ancestors once did" From CBC's "What on Earth" Newsletter.

Hey Climate folks: Apparently there is a discussion among many in the global climate community to have NYC Climate Week moved to Montreal. Climate advocates/experts don’t want to go to US because of border concerns - and general clampdown on discussing climate in US. Thoughts?

If Canada is looking for nation-building projects that improve affordability, enhance reliability, reduce our reliance on the US, and set us up for the future, don’t have to look much further than interprovincial transmission. By me and Philippe Dunsky: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...

Just your typical @volts.wtf thread. Starts with a dig at regional pizza and ends (inevitably) with finer details about CoPs for district heating 😂 I love this place

Quebec hit 30.9% for the year. In Q4 2024, new BEV and PHEV vehicle sales reached a spectacular 40%.

If you had asked me in January 2024 to predict Quebec’s Jan 2025 EV sales immediately after the rebates drop from 7k to 4k, I would have assumed a big year-over-year drop, but data from the rebate program suggests closer to a doubling.

This is gonna be tricky. EV incentives in Quebec were already planned to drop from $7k to $4k on Jan 1. Now we learn that the huge surge in demand over the past few months (eg 34% market share in Q3) means that the program has run out of money sooner than expected.

“Why is Toronto traffic so terrible?” wonders man in car

It warms my heart to see a “how to rewild a river” article in a major North American newspaper. And I’ve scrambled over these kinds of logjams deep in BC, never understanding their importance Thank you @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social 😄❤️ www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The stickiness of the IRA is a feature, not a bug. More than 3/4 of announced IRA clean energy investment is going to Republican districts. In a close house, it won't take many votes to thwart a repeal of manufacturing tax credits.