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volewica.blogspot.comChina above 60% EVs; US & Japan left behindI spent a lot of time collecting EV data for sharing with you, my readers. But as happens with a new technology as it matures, the data have improved, and I'd like to share with you this excellent site which shows the percentage of car sales that are pure EVs, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and plain fossil-fuelled vehicles. The website is maintained by Robbie Andrew, who is with CICERO — Center for International Climate Research — which is based in Oslo. The contrast couldn't be greater between China and the US and Japan. China, moving steadily and inexorably to 100% EVs, and already exceeding 60% EVs+PHEVs; the US, which *invented* the EV, at a paltry 5%; and Japan even less. Japan *invented* the hybrid, with the ground-breaking Toyota Prius, but refused to push the plug-in hybrid. To develop production and a market for plug-in hybrids after the creation of the Prius, would have been easy. From there to full EVs would also have been an easy and logical step. But they flubbed it. Two huge technological advances which should have led the US and Japan to go on dominating global car making. Two great automotive giants of 30 years ago ceding the global market for EVs, and therefore all cars, to China, simply because they refused to accept the reality of, and the opportunity provided by, EVs. And now it's prolly too late to catch up. How stupid. How sad.

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After spending all week accusing Canada of election meddling, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra now claims he was "taken out of context" and hasn't actually concluded we interfered. Funny how fast a bully changes their tune when Canada refuses to back down. 🇨🇦 FO Petey 🖕🤬 ~ Canadian Outlook

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Our diversity is our strength. It makes us better, happier, more fulfilled, more well rounded. Fuller - as we’re introduced to so many new and delicious foods! And music etc….

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I am delighted to have a new(ish) neighbourhood pharmacy owned by a young Nigerian-Canadian, where I could walk to get my vaccinations. I’m delighted to live in a neighbourhood where I can walk for dried figs and sumac. These aren’t things to fear. They are things to embrace. Well. At least for me.

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The other customers in the shop - an Iranian couple with a young son - helped us pick out the right things to buy. And as we walked home, I shook my head, trying to understand the xenophobia behind those terrible referendum questions. This IS the Alberta I want - cosmopolitan, happy, thriving.

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My central neighbourhood has been “in transition” ever since we moved here in 1992. So many of the restaurants and shops that keep the area vibrant and walkable are owned by new immigrant entrepreneurs, whose successful small businesses actually raise my residential property values!

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The racist/homophobe/angry at their own life crowd will always show up to vote to oppress/shoot themselves in the foot. Every election. That hatred isn’t going to elect itself, you know.

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social

British Colombians failed an open book test simply because 11% decided they had better things to do. If you couldn’t be bothered to vote to have your voice heard, don’t you dare complaining for the next 20 yrs. Voter apathy will be the death of democracy someday.

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efe.com/english/late... <centrist source> 🇧🇷 🗳️ “Lula…<had> warned that Flávio’s victory posed a threat to democracy, regarding the coup attempt led by Flávio’s father after he lost the 2022 election… recalled the corruption allegations vs Flávio & his ties to …paramilitary groups…”

efe.comLula wins presidential election in an unprecedented comeback against Flávio Bolsonaro - EFEBrazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the 2nd round of the election with 51.76%, compared to 48.24% for Flávio Bolsonaro.

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And yet this is what demented Donald was saying just last night...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Why do we always have to take people from shit house countries? We can't we take people from Norway and Sweden and Denmark? By the way, Denmark gave us Greenland ... what do you take, Venezuela or Greenland? We got them both!"

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As the son of immigrants, FUCK YOU Rempel and FUCK Maple MAGAT Conservatives in general. The CPC, the party of hate and division, it's all they have. And by the way good luck BC your protest vote is going to bite you in the ass. Eby, you're a putz.

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Proud to be a citizen of a shithouse country! It's actually central to Norwegian culture to own a mountain cabin with a shithouse.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Norway: "I didn't get the Nobel Prize so I don't want anybody from Norway. I don't want anything to do with Norway…Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country, actually."

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Stephen Harper’s spouse and the doyenne of the 🍁gun cult gushing over apartheid-reared 🇺🇸Nazi Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service. He just used it to hinder 🇺🇦Ukraine’s struggle to defend against 🇷🇺Russian war criminals.

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SHOCKING 😳: Trump blew up trade talks with Canada, said Canada has no cards but had to reduce UNJUST tariffs yesterday under severe pressure from Americans who cannot bear the burden of inflation anymore. CANADA WILL NOT BEG ❌🇨🇦💪