All good things come to an end. I got a free charge here 17 times last year. Hard to get because it was free, availability will improve now. Hopefully a still cheap price.
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All good things come to an end. I got a free charge here 17 times last year. Hard to get because it was free, availability will improve now. Hopefully a still cheap price.
It would be great to remove the 100% tariff that Canada put on EV's from China. There is good public support. www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...
It seems less convenient than just putting food scraps in a stainless steel bin. Is the idea it is for people that have been conditioned to put food down the drain?
It really is a dream and does so many things better than Seattle
That is totally fair. I respect your decision to leave. On the other side I have been attacked a few times on bluesky by the far left. Social media can be pretty not great some times.
I reach out in person, LinkedIn and a range of methods. They all have a bit of a different reach.
I work to meet people where people are at. I get to work with many fine people, most of whom lean farther right than I do.
My your child have a better ability to carry on civil discourse. You clearly lack the basic skills. You communicate in what many in the world see as the stereotypical American.
I know many of them personally and have met up with them. I assure you they're not bots. I'm sure there are many bots on there as I'm sure there are many bots on here.
In my work I deal a lot with builders of homes and contractors. Statistically they lean more right politically. Blue sky leans pretty far left. So it has some use but other channels have significant use as well.
The site's pretty diverse. But go ahead and write everyone off. That seems like what you are interested to do. Classic move for someone with no photo.
Let's meet up Evan, I would like to talk to you in person. I try to meet people where they are. I'd love to understand your perspective.
Saw this all electric Candela C-8 is an hydrofoil boat hauling ass in howe sound today. Nearly silent.
Mexican watermelon selling well in the foreground. American watermelon is marked down but not moving. Canadians are avoiding American products when they can.
It's true! I took the idea from Nate and I would do it again!
Another step forward for Churchill Falls and the future Gull Island project in signing a benefit and reconciliation agreement with the Innu Nation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I agree, the progress on cold climates technology is impressive. In Vancouver I passed a bylaw working with the Heating Refrigeration Air Conditioning Institute of Canada that requires all permanently installed AC to also heat, though AC is priority for many council.vancouver.ca/20220517/doc...
We have a Mitsubishi heat pump in a 1908 home. No backup. Coldest night so far was -16C here in Vancouver BC Canada. Handled the cold without issue.
I just see the cord theft here and know there is a better solution.
The founder is in a city where it snows and he talks about designing the system to work with snow. Starts just after the 3 minute mark: youtu.be/GIIDnjnRNaE?...
Totally normal heat wave
Check out these curbside Electric Vehicle chargers in London (UK). I like how the one disappears when not in use.
Where Vancouver goes, North Vancouver is soon to follow. Nice to see these changes to single family zoning: www.northshoredailypost.com/district-of-...
I was on a call with staff from Copenhagen this morning. Part of their presentation covered the new ring road tunnel and sections they are building, because "the existing ring road is congested". I was hoping to see more from them.
Great article, thanks for sharing. Churchill Falls has occupied part of my psyche as long as I can remember. My father, brother and I fished for salmon on both gull island & Muskrat falls. Higgins line in St.johns is named for my great uncle who negotiated (on a team) the Labrador border.
Would be nice if Canada drops the massive tariffs on BYD if they agree to build a factory in Canada. It would help adoption greatly. I test drove a BYD seagull in Costa Rica last year, incredible machine for $10,000.
The new HiSense air to water dumps heat to the dhw tank when in cooling mode.
A local company is doing something like this in two single family retrofits. Using R290 mono block heat pumps and phase change material. Case study by fall I hope. Replacing a gas boiler for heating and hot water on an existing 100a service.
We added 6 electric hot water tanks and 4 heat pumps into a 1960s 6 unit townhouse building. Using Canadian made Evectrix load management, they were able to avoid an upgrade to the original 200A 3 phase service. Today was the media event with Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix!
Hopefully hopefully they have self-driving.
This is great Dr. Lem! Do you think we could ever see doctors prescribing cooling at home? I wonder if it could help overcome barriers for people installing AC or a heat pump at home.
We have North Americas largest DLT factory here in the Vancouver area. Structure craft currently has projects on 5 continents, many right here in British Columbia. www.instagram.com/structurecra...
In the book they do talk about isolated cases which have turned out well. The challenge the book highlights is broadly there's no real regulation and as a result, much of the work is more of a strip mining operation. Extracting fees without relevant expertise..
A good podcast episode on the topic: freakonomics.com/podcast/are-...
I would be hard pressed to point to an industry where private equity has improved the product or service. "Plunder" is a great book on the topic.
It's great. Thanks for sharing.
I caught someone stealing tonight. They did a break and enter in our neighborhood some weeks back. I recognized them, called @vancouverpd.bsky.social ,criminal tried to flee, I gave chase. VPD was on the phone and arrested them a few blocks away. They had an outstanding warrant, straight to jail.
Vancouver made the shift in the past 2 years. For new multi family development (Multiplex and larger which is 3-8 homes) trees can be removed with one replanted when lots are redeveloped. It along with some other changes (lowering the density for new single fam) have spurred development.
Have you found a hot water tank that can do that? My Rheem heat pump hot water heater is supposed to be able to do it, but no luck so far.
Our electric utility just launched a flat and time of day rate option. They have a tool online to look at your two previous years of smart meter data. For our house the time of day rate saves a couple of hundred dollars if we shift EV charging and some dishwasher time to overnight.
If you think BIXI is good, just wait till you try Canadian Healthcare! :) Kidding aside, BIXI is incredible. Early support by the City and a dedication to safe separated infrastructure made it so successful. Bike over to "St-Viateur Bagel" and "Fairmount Bagel" to tell us which is your fave!
Nice. I suggest following up on it soon as you can. Now that the new process is set up, I am moving away from helping on each project. Three months from now I will be on to focus on higher voltage and larger services.
Cool, a decent chunk are going underground with an overhead transformer. Still a good outcome, if not the lowest cost option. Congrats on the shift!
The City of Vancouver has run an incentive program for Passive House @ipha.bsky.social and CHBA Net Zero @chbanational.bsky.social for the past 5 years and is considering an extension for 5 more years. Should the city go from 5% to 10% floor area for cert? council.vancouver.ca/20250603/doc...
How is your electrical servicing application coming along?
No lane. Double street front.
The other way to look at it, is the City treats public space allocation carefully. Staff take a very long term view.
I'm trying something like that in a neighborhood where the electrical service is already fully underground. It's surprisingly difficult. Largely because the transformer goes in public space and there's lots of plans for bike, bus and enhanced sidewalks. Regardless, I'm trying.
My understanding is it just depends if you put in load management or not. That's the only thing that varies how it's modeled in terms of how you calculate the electrical service.
Looks like IKEA Richmond has some big Electric Fleet plans! This in addition to their current offering on the customer side, where they give 2H free EV charging 24A@208V, $5/h after.
I'll ask staff if the information is public yet.
We are working with a Canadian curbside charging solution. That said, if you want to bring this one, I bet I could make a path where it would be accepted and allowed.
Every $1 spent on building grid interties between B.C. & Alberta would allow the two provinces to save $5. So why is the Alberta regulator not pushing for an intertie with Site C, just 60km from the AB border and a restoration of the southern intertie to its PATH rating? www.biv.com/news/resourc...
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol... Thanks for sharing @devoncantwell.bsky.social
Doug we can fix all these problems when California becomes Canada's 11th Province. ;)
Classic Alberta headline
You love to see a more connected Canada! The proposed Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link would see a 1,200-kilometre line built through northern Manitoba to several Nunavut communities west of Hudson Bay that currently use diesel to generate electricity. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The moose meat likely went to the food bank. Newfoundland is the only province that allows game meat in restaurants, grocery stores and food banks.
Costco brings in Birks once a year. One colour and one style. Makes it easy. That said I have 4 different types at home because they are so comfortable.
Cool, please post how it does on coldest days. My unit works to -30C but coldest day so far has been -16C
Traveling, largely I have been able to find good hotels with good (often free) charging. Banff feels like a bit of a captive audience as it is a destination town in a national park. 120v to the rescue!
Electricity Camp was awesome!
Electrification of industrial projects will likely be part of it, I agree.
There should be an option on hotel travel searches for "120v outlet provided". I was searching for a hotel in Banff, those with EV charging were 2x$. I went with a lower price option & 120v was enough over our 3 day stay. Outlets left over from Now removed old central vac system.
Nation building project! It could be the first of many. Nice to see the Yukon and British Columbia signing an agreement to explore connecting our electrical grids. An electrified North benefits Canada as a nation: www.yukon-news.com/news/nation-...
Great piece in @macleans.bsky.social: Canada can forget America (or at least think about it less) and build upon the plans of the past, for a much stronger East to West electrical grid. macleans.ca/economy/forg...
Impressive, I am about 5500km since Sept 2020. They are great machines.
Yes, it is a single family home.
It's a passive house plus energy bill for two months. 32 cents for all their energy including an electric vehicle. The magic of solar and passive house!
Stopping to get a charge in #Merritt BC. The gas station adjacent to chargers is in receivership at the same time they've tripled the number of chargers here which is great because they're generally well used.
None of my friends want to travel to America at the moment. One went for a wedding and another for work, but people are changing their vacation and plans for pleasure.
We have all started trying to avoid American products whenever possible. When it started to happen the local foodbank received 400% more donations from the grocery stores as American products went unsold.
You love to see it, a bold plan for our electric utility! Here are the big 5 advancements coming: 1. More clean power with a new call 2. Faster connections 3. Grow firm capacity 4. Supercharge energy efficiency 5. Strategic investments The plan is here: www.bchydro.com/content/dam/...
Emmitsburg is home to the National Fire Academy, effectively the war college for U.S. firefighters. The Trump administration's decision to halt classes has some townspeople pondering their votes.
This is wild. Good shortages in America seem very likely at this point.
Tell me you are at the annual meeting of the international electrical inspectors without telling me you are at the annual meeting of international electrical inspectors. (The lot is full of Electric @Ford F150s and @Tesla 3/Ys!)
An electric van delivering electric scooters in Vancouver. Nice!
My prediction
If you build a multiplex (3-6 homes R1-1) in Vancouver, you can now install up to 6 meter bases without an electrical room required for the meters if requesting a 200A or 400A service. This change helps bring down the average cost of a new multiplex home app.bchydro.com/content/dam/...
Yes. They are much quieter. There are plug in electric and battery electric. Vancouver's West End neighborhood bans leaf blowers of all types: vancouver.ca/home-propert...
Good to see Manitoba encouraging more Canadian electrical transmission Interties. It would be great to see more interprovincial electric trade www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...
I like the idea. If @uytaelee.bsky.social is interested I can propose something.
Next week, BSH researcher Conrad Speckert will be speaking on a panel with @canurb.bsky.social to explore single-stair designs for #middlehousing. Drawing from his research with Nik Luka, Conrad's work has already shaped provincial building codes—and could influence national standards.
Hey planners, architects and developers Check out singlestair.ca (a project of @conradspeckert.bsky.social and LGA Architects) A whole trove of info, including 6 prototype buildings of different sizes, with comparisons between single stair vs scissor stair etc.
Happy to do a site visit. If there is interest in electrifying, we can likely find more cost effective way forward. We're presently working with a sixplex to electrify mostly (65% reduction in gas)and have completed that project. Now working with a 14 home building to electrify fully.
Looks AI generated based on tree size, planter depth and how the plants have been maintained to a uniform length.
First time I have seen an aftermarket condenser cover. Quite a nice look on the end of these townhomes.
The DOS prompt only version of hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. I remember there were multiple 5 and 1/4-in discs that you had to load back and forth.
Some cities enable buses to take a photo from the front mounted camera. Then tow is automatically dispatched. Vancouver should allow the same.
Skiing in Whistler for spring break, nice to see RDC fine homes keeping the place clean!
Nice, what brand? Our little cabin community is looking for a community machine. Used on a dirt cart path, 6km trips mostly.
Drought conditions persist in Mexico and America. The American presidents interest in Canada also continues. globalnews.ca/news/1109229...
I could check but my understanding is you can enable it for the entire "house" meter, which is likely where your strata EV charging is connected.
You can stay with the tiered rate if you prefer. This is an additional option only. Homes that heat with gas, oil, or wood are less likely to have a reason to change rate plans.
SFH likely to see greatest benefit. As a point of reference, driving a single EV we used 6500kwh last year. Adding in home energy would break 14.5K for sure. As I understand it, the flat rate can get the time of day discount overnight also.
Options for electricity rates are good & British Columbia will get a flat rate option. The 9&14c tired default remains, but you can opt in to the flat option. I am told you will be able to look in your MyHydro account to see which is cheaper based on last years usage www.bchydro.com/toolbar/abou...
Agreed. We should keep our efficient regulations and try to bring Chinese or EU car makers.
Federal money to build out our grid to support electrification: www.castanet.net/news/BC/5384...
The end of most American auto manufacturers? US to abandon efficiency, falling behind growing global companies making cars the world wants: arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03...