Tesla police cruiser, Trump voters love solar, and nicer cobalt mines

Tesla police cruiser, Trump voters love solar, and nicer cobalt mines

On today’s episode of Quick Charge, I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that, as a trusted media personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves cobalt mines. We’ve also got the world’s quickest police pursuit vehicle, an Amnesty International report … Read more

Northern lights, beluga whales and science in Manitoba

Northern lights, beluga whales and science in Manitoba

After one night in the Manitoba capital city of Winnipeg, 13 of us climbed aboard the Calm Air 62-seater from the charter terminal, ready for our arctic adventure. Soon, we began our smooth 2½-hour flight to Churchill, the “Gem of the North,” as its called, a small former railroad town built by the Hudson Bay … Read more

A comet may become visible to the unaided eye in the coming weeks. Here’s how you can see it

A comet may become visible to the unaided eye in the coming weeks. Here’s how you can see it

There’s a new comet in the sky that has gained a lot of attention lately over its potential to become visible to the naked eye. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) was discovered by observatories in China and South Africa in early 2023. Believed to have originated from the Oort Cloud — a giant spherical shell that … Read more

EV sales undeniably up, a $50K Lucid, and solar is bigger in Texas

EV sales undeniably up, a K Lucid, and solar is bigger in Texas

On today’s spectacular episode of Quick Charge, we bust the myth of slowing EV sales by teaching journalists how to do math. We also check out the new, $50,000 mainstream Lucid and break the news to California that they’re not #1 anymore. We also mark Greenlane’s groundbreaking (literally!) flagship EV charging station for big trucks, and talk … Read more

Data centres are hungry for power, and Alberta is pitching itself as the place to build

Data centres are hungry for power, and Alberta is pitching itself as the place to build

Alberta is putting itself in the race for a slice of the soaring growth of data centres in North America. A pair of Alberta cabinet ministers set off for Silicon Valley last week with the sole focus of promoting the province as a “prime location” to build the physical structures that store and process our digital information. Major … Read more

Researchers say oxygen is being produced on the ocean floor. The mining company funding them isn’t happy

Researchers say oxygen is being produced on the ocean floor. The mining company funding them isn’t happy

Oxygen is being produced on the ocean floor — seemingly by ancient lumps of metal — according to a new study. That discovery is putting the scientists behind it at odds with the Canada-based mining company that funded them. “We were the worst critics of this paper for a long time,” Andrew Sweetman of the Scottish … Read more

Jaw-dropping Cadillac, a new IONIQ 6, and Zeem CEO stops by

Jaw-dropping Cadillac, a new IONIQ 6, and Zeem CEO stops by

In this exciting, extra-long episode of Quick Charge, Zeem Solutions’ CEO Paul Gioupis stops by to explain how a managed “fleet as a service” solution helps take the uncertainty out of electrifying a commercial vehicle fleet while I talk up the new Cadillac Sollei and Hyundai plans some big updates for its IONIQ 6 (yes, … Read more

With Focus on Rooftop Solar & Energy Security, Budget 2024 Sets India on Path to A Sustainable Economy

With Focus on Rooftop Solar & Energy Security, Budget 2024 Sets India on Path to A Sustainable Economy

With its focus on expanding rooftop solar, energy security, and climate-resilient agriculture, Budget 2024 has set India on the path to a sustainable economy, said experts, highlighting that it demonstrates the country’s commitment to climate action and clean energy. “Energy transition is critical in the fight against climate change,” said finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman while … Read more

Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship

Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton says she wants to understand the very large and the very small, and that’s why she became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in astrophysics.  Rousseau-Nepton received her PhD in 2017 from Université Laval in Quebec City. She said that at the time she wasn’t aware she was the first Indigenous … Read more