Not exact matches
So far, Canada has taken a scattershot approach to building
charging infrastructure and deploying more EVs, one led primarily by provinces.
An electric auto pact could start with a trilateral commitment to invest in
charging infrastructure for electric cars across the continent,
so that drivers can have confidence they'll find the power they need wherever their route takes them.
And for hundreds of years, governments have undertaken basic
infrastructure spending
so that private owners would not use monopoly privileges to
charge economic rent.
So the aim was not only to provide basic
infrastructure needs freely or at subsidized prices, but to prevent private owners from erecting tollbooths on roads and
charging monopoly prices for power, phone systems (as in Telmex in Mexico or similar phone monopolies in the post-Soviet kleptocracies).
Beyond offering cash for EV
charging infrastructure (a welcome gesture but still insufficient), the federal government
so far has done little to help Canada achieve the kind of growth in EV uptake now happening in Europe, China and the U.S..
Rob Artigo: Right, and Elon Musk went out at the expense of the company Tesla to put
charging stations in along the LA corridor,
so that people would have some
infrastructure.
A limited range and
charging infrastructure have
so far constrained sales.
As electric car popularity grows,
so does the
charging infrastructure.
yes there is an initial carbon cost, but these cars will run years and thousands of miles and a city full of them the air would be pristine, thats what matters and more and more they will be
charged from a wind and solar expanding
infrastructure so its all going to get cleaner and cleaner as time and uptake catches on, this is the future and more manufacturers will now grab this and realise that all there models will go this way, not for enviromental reasons but because they will be cheaper to run, service, performance, every which way they are a win.
Aside from any profit to be realized in
infrastructure investment, the corporate world has every interest in freeing us of our driving chores
so we can spend more time chalking up incremental
charges shopping, blabbing, and social networking.
If you look at the EV
infrastructure Tesla has in place (Battery factory, huge
charging network) compared to the others it's not hard to see why the share price is
so high.
Amazon has, arguably, the most powerful web - based
infrastructure and servers on the planet,
so it's not clear why they
charge so much for content delivery.
-- # 400m ($ 530m) for electric vehicle
charging infrastructure — # 100m ($ 132m) for a plug - in car grant — # 40m ($ 53m) for
charging research & development — Clarifications to the law
so drivers will not face taxes if
charging at work — 1/3 off rail fares for 4.5 million people aged between 26 - 30 — 1 % increase in company car tax for diesel vehicles — An increase in taxes on new cars that do not meet the latest EU6 emissions band
Entry - level electric car prices are dropping, driving ranges are growing, and EV
charging infrastructure is beginning to take off in many cities,
so choosing to drive an electric car isn't such a compromise anymore, and it turns out that it can actually be a smart financial route to take.
So now you can deploy 8 units of Me2 Power ™ for the same money making
charging infrastructure more sustainable.
I love my EV and knowing that the
infrastructure for
charging it is growing
so rapidly makes me feel even better about my decision to drive one and the forward progress of EVs and alternative fuel transportation!
Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers
charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new
infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.
In fact, they put
so much money into their
infrastructure and their promotions that they have to
charge their clients ridiculous prices, sometime upwards of $ 1000 for a resume!