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Old 11-21-2018, 07:42 PM   #22
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90% of Canadians live by the 49th parallel

DJI flying cameras few years ago had their battery heated, i think winter temps are the least of the hurdles

the heaviest of HD work rigs will probably stay on diesel, did you even read the first sentence of the source?

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British Columbia on a path to require the sale of all new light-duty cars and trucks to be zero-emission vehicles

how much more power is going to be generated from Site C?

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Yeah dream on. This might work in cities like Vancouver and Richmond, good luck up north. I'd love to see an electric vehicle's battery pack survive -40 temperatures all winter.

I'd also love to see the range on an electric pickup with two 700l tidy tanks (3000lb) for equipment in the bed hauling a 15000lb trailer with a skid steer on the back, 500km from the nearest "fast charge" station. Also, before the "hurrr durrr we'll build more fast charge stations", how about places where power is provided by generator? i.e every camp (logging, mining, fishing, industry) job ever. I'd just love to see the genset requirements of charging heavy equipment and trucks.

Also, the time factor. Sure you can in theory fast charge a car in 20 mins, but a piece of equipment? A one ton truck? probably an hour at least. Operations do not have an hour every 4-8 hours to charge stuff, it's 10 mins every 10 hours to fuel machines and change operators.

Sure, replace your average civic or corolla, or crv/cx5 with electric vehicles, I think we'll always have ICE trucks and sports cars.

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