23 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”

  1. In an ideal world, the market would dictate the form of transportation but under what is now a global theocracy, ICs are being legislated away. The reality is that personal automobiles, the bane of “planners” and tyrants, will become economically available only to the filthy rich and our state masters. The “little” people will be able to afford electric scooters and allowed to put around within their high-density concrete concentration camps, oops, I mean “planned” urban centres. Farmers will be allowed highly restricted exemptions to stave off total starvation of course but aside from what the “planners” deem absolutely necessary, rural living will go the same way as ICs. And this future hell will all likely come about democratically!

  2. Also at IKEA, the electric vehicle parking spots are always the closest to the entrance, too. So my elderly mom has to park further away than those wealthy folk who can maintain an EV for their virtue-signalling trips to places like this.
    Mind you, she only goes there for their “Senior’s Breakfast”, great restaurant for limited-income seniors to have a reasonably-priced breakfast of powdered eggs and coffee. But of the stuff they hope you’ll buy after breakfast, almost everything is junk.

  4. Canada should import some gypsies from the U.K. so this free electricity can be used. In fact, they’ll never leave these parking spots – ever.

  5. Hmmm… Let’s see.
    step one: Redflow super B
    step two: net metering
    step three: every morning, park at IKEA, recharge with free power
    step four: drive home, plug in, sell it back to province
    I wonder if it could be done such that you never had to pay for any power again. Maybe if you had 2 or 3 Redflow super B trains all ready to go, and a full time driver charging one, moving second in between…

  6. But of the stuff they hope you’ll buy after breakfast, almost everything is junk.
    Yup. Some of my fellow tenants abandon stuff when they move and I’ve often found IKEA items in those heaps. In particular, I’ve found a lot of broken floor lamps.
    Those lamps are badly designed and are usually of shoddy construction. I’ve taken several of them, removed the bits that aren’t of any use to me, and converted them into antenna stands that I can use for my ham station.
    One man’s junk is another man’s treasure, right?

  7. They’ve been installing these in some new schools and community centers for a couple years now in Winnipeg. Never seen any of them used though.
    I use them as loading zones.

  12. My old office building put three of these in for no apparent reason. We were short on parking as it was. One of the lawyers drove a Tesla, I’m guessing that was it, but why the two extra spaces?
    People figured out pretty quickly they could use them. One woman went so far as to park her SUV in one of the spots, plug in a household extension cord, then throw the other end under the front of her car.

  14. I’m already here, and was thinking about buying some very large batteries and letting them charge up, and steal…….EMR, going into business:-)))

  15. Last Sunday, Ikea in Burlington, Ontario, same thing: four EV spots, all empty, opposite 4 “disabled” spots, one of which was driven by a guy who had no apparent disabilities, as he loaded up a mess of stuff.
    Virtue signalling and free loading.

  16. Posted this photo last January of the Tesla station in Fort MacLeod.
    http://clivesphotos.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/0/9/51095487/tesla-fort-macleod-dec-b-30-6321_orig.jpg
    Driven past this charging station about 30 times since and never saw one car there.
    Too funny. See here from last January:
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tesla-charging-station-fort-macleod-1.3916681
    Officials convinced Tesla the town would be a good location … said Sue Keenan, the town’s chief administrative officer…”The economic development impact is phenomenal,” she said.
    Just more green wet dreams. The economic impact of an empty parking lot is yuge…apparently. ☺

  17. Batteries won’t do it dude. Batteries are the reason electric cars will never be widely adopted. Batteries are the reason solar and wind power will always be intermittent. Instead of batteries, try a giant weight, a long pole, miles of cable… and swing a generator. Use the free power to hoist the weight up to 100,000 feet say (you will need a pole that long). Then, when the weight is at the top, let the cable unwind and turn the genny…
    Or maybe, a large pool, say say 600,000,000 peta liters; PUMPED STORAGE! Then just set up a hydro dam in the IKEA parking spot. Pump water to fill your tankwith free power, then drain it through your generation system and sell the power back to them.

  18. Looks like the brand new Calgary Tesla dealership is up and running, we’ll see how busy the charging stations are when it’s -30

  20. I am not talking “those” batteries. Large lead acid batteries you use for “off line” operation. They would make great for E theft, sitting in the back of a large truck, and then dump them on line and sell E back to the fools:-)))
    I know that batteries are the problem with E cars, I’v made that argument many times my self, and the technically illiterates don’t get that.

  21. The same kind of idiots are everywhere, but the worst are those who tax us to implement their stupidity.
    Our city council spent $15K installing a charging station outside one of our recreational facilities. I use the place frequently and in all honesty, over the course of three years I have yet to see a car hooked up to it.
    Ditto the public works yard. I teach a safety course to city employees from time to time and in questioning them, they’ve told me that even the city’s two electric vehicles seldom use the yard station.
    BTW, the city could have purchased two Yaris compacts for the cost of their one Nissan Leaf. But the 33mpg Yaris wouldn’t provide the same virtue signalling smugness.

  22. “I know that batteries are the problem with E cars, I’v made that argument many times my self, and the technically illiterates don’t get that.”
    It may not be wise to park anywhere near a charging Battery Pak.. When they fail the explosion & fire will be huge…Insurance must be expensive.
    Note the link to Salvage cars: Most have front-end damage.. Do they have Brake issues? or are all the twit drivers near-sighted or near blind

  23. Yep, they’re useless but people will still buy EVs to liberate themselves from guilt.
    Being the good capitalist I am I think that cobalt or maybe even lithium producers would make a good investment.

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