November 29th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
Electrifying everything at the same time as all electrical generation shifts to renewables are two of the key points in my Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work. Heat pumps are only part of the answer, but at about 1% of Canada's total GHG emissions reduction target, they are a surprisingly big one. Too bad about Alberta though
November 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Electrify Canada, which is a partner of Electrify America as well as Volkswagen Group Canada, continues spreading holiday cheer and ultrafast EV charging stations across Canada, and it has now expanded into Alberta
November 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The Canadian company Daymak wants to excite the world about light electric vehicles (LEVs) and has launched a line of 6 different but stylistically related LEVs. The Avvenire lineup looks like something James Bond would use
November 19th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
Heat pumps in the worst buildings and nothing else would eliminate about 1.9 megatonnes of CO2e per year in Canada
October 24th, 2020 | by Winter Wilson
In the first half of this two-part interview for our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, and Anna Ziolecki and Brent Doberstein from the University of Waterloo, sit down to talk about disaster risk reduction and managed retreat
October 7th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
Saskatchewan could go from a Canadian laggard, a regressive province that along with Alberta is causing other provinces' efforts to meet national emissions standards to fail, to a progressive province which leads the country in transforming to a modern energy economy. But it likely won't
October 6th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), a support organization for transit agencies, has launched a $999,000 investment into a new initiative to bring down charging costs for electric buses
September 30th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
I drive a short-range EV long distances. It takes more time, more days and nights, but it works. I drive what might have been a one day trip in a Tesla or a gasoline car in two or three days. I have done one particular route 5 times, relying on Electrify America stations and a few EVgo stations
September 22nd, 2020 | by Sponsored Content
In a recent article by Zachary Shahan, he wrote that some of the main challenges that face EV manufacturers are specifically around securing a supply chain for their EV battery manufacturing. While it is clear that EVs need efficient batteries, it is not as well known that it also takes one or two years to get a battery production plant up and running, just ask industry leader Tesla, Inc
September 17th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Noting the climate, economic, jobs and health benefits it would bring, today nine nations on four continents agreed to work collaboratively to grow zero-emission commercial vehicle manufacturing, infrastructure and deployment at home and globally
September 1st, 2020 | by NASA
In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using 30 years of NASA satellite data have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change
August 28th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Nasdaq approves listing with trading expected to begin today under the symbol “GP.”
August 16th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Visiting a Parks Canada location in an electric vehicle is easier than ever before, thanks in part to Tesla's donation of hundreds of charging stations
August 11th, 2020 | by Press Release
OAKVILLE, ON, Aug. 11, 2020 /CNW/ — The Government of Canada is building a clean energy future to strengthen the economy, create good jobs and support the natural resource sectors. This will be more important than ever as we begin to reopen the economy and plan our recovery from the COVID-19 crisis
August 11th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
When will these increasingly isolated and narrowly based conservative parties in the US and Canada learn the lesson of demographics and broaden their tents again? Hopefully soon
August 1st, 2020 | by Kyle Field
A pair of EV advocates are hitting the road this Sunday on Canada's first non-stop coast-to-coast electric vehicle road trip. Ian Pavelko (aka the Mad Hungarian) from Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC and Trevor Page (founder of Tesla Owners Online) of Aurora, ON will drive a Tesla Model 3 Performance through the night from British Columbia to Halifax, utilizing Tesla's brand spanking new trans-Canadian Supercharger network to keep the vehicle charged up along the way
July 22nd, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
The Conservative Party of Canada took the wrong message from their failure in late 2019. They think that doubling down on things that the majority of Canada is uninterested in is the right strategy, despite all evidence to the contrary
