Yup, taking this a bit off topic: I've always bought dairy products with the blue cow on it (signifies Canadian dairy). The US dairy industry only wants to export into Canada when they have excess, and leave us dry when they don't, so i strongly support Canadian dairy production.

5 kWh * 60 = 300 kW

at 800V (typical charging voltage) that is 375A

(still huge, but an order of magnitude less)

That said, for most people, going abroad for surgery or to buy a home is not an option.

I'm sorry, I think you have a math or data error here. The US government budget for 2025 was not $62.5 trillion dollars.

You're referring to Sally Menke? Tarantino has released 3 movies since then.

Note that marine shipping is extraordinarily fuel efficient (from a gCO2/(t*km) basis), so I doubt that it adds a lot on a per ton of fuel basis. We just ship a lot of fossil fuels.

This [1] graph looks to be in the right ballpark from what i remember in school 15 years ago, i didn't verify it in depth but +- an order of magnitude better than the next best method is roughly right

https://image2.slideserve.com/4166134/gco-2-t-km-of-freight-...

When going the other way and dividing, I similarly find it mentally easier to multiply by 10/18 (rather than just divide by 1.8)

(F - 32) / 1.8 = C

C * 1.8 + 32 = F

I personally find the math just as easy to do accurately. For example, 87F -32/1.8 = 55/1.8 =~30.5C. Compare that to your approximate method, which would give 28.5C, which is just wrong

(Maybe I just got really good at this when working a public facing job with a lot of American tourists - they would ask what our celsius temperatures were "in real units", so I got quite comfortable converting the air and water temps. Fahrenheit never once became intuitive to me, though.)

Yeah, so can I - doesn't mean much. The streetcar is not where TTC excels in ridership, the subway and buses are.

If you find a better primary source, you'll see that the lower price vehicles are the only thing allowed at the low tariff rate:

The deal covers vehicles priced at $33,000 or less, and other cars sold at that price are already manufactured offshore

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/canada-china-elec...

No, trucks are useful, but a massive modern pickup truck is much less useful in the urban context than a standard pickup truck from 30 years ago. The bed size has remained the same, the outside envelope of the vehicle has ballooned massively.

> You should get better transit so less people have cars.

Toronto has a very high (for north america) transit mode share

Overhead Catenary [1] is a standard term, for a system that has two wires overhead - one suspended from the posts (forming a series of catenary curve), the other suspended from that cable at regular intervals (and held level relative to the track). The wood in Boston's system seems to replace the catenary cable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_line#Overhead_catenar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system

[2] https://maps.app.goo.gl/sfoKSP5yRU41yS8w5

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