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2024 September 14: "All Things Electric Show" V: Electric @ Work

This will be my big page about the Electric Show, because this is where I believe that electric vehicles can make a big splash in our society and show what they're really good at: work. Let's start with the simplest: the trucks for BC Hydro themselves, going about fixing transformers and poles. Think about it: they drive 10 kilometres to a problem, spend hours there, maybe do 30-40 kilometres in a day. They don't need "range".

Similarly, on the private side, how many trucks are NOT being stupidly used as commuter vehicles, but actually need to be trucks for carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and gardeners? The professional gardener beside this truck told me he got it at a real bargain and it's been wonderful for him. He doesn't need all that battery for the truck.

He needs the big truck battery to recharge a machine like this a few times a day. This is a loader, more used for landscaping. I think he was on a big power mower or something. All electric, and the big vehicles can charge up the little ones in the field! A whole new way.

You know what else only travels a few hundred kilometres a day? Ambulances. And a whole lot of stuff in an ambulance requires power that they had to take from the vehicle alternator anyway.

Getting into the bigger iron still, there was a medium-size dump truck on display, though the model didn't have an electric motor - apparently that can be customized!

And bigger iron still, there were actual semi-trailer engines on display:

With the king of them all, the big Peterbilt, open to show the electric engine:

And there's still more to show. There was test-driving. Indoors.

2024 September 13: "All Things Electric" Show IV: BIG Money

2024 September 10: "All Things Electric" Show III: Micromobility

2024 September 10: "All Things Electric" Show II: Luxury

2024 September 9: "All Things Electric" Show I: Not

2024 September 8: Two Views of Lion's Gate

2024 September 5: Tree Shadow Creates Mural

2024 September 4: Cutest Things in the Park

2024 September 3: Embracing the Aquarium

2024 September 2: The Ross Fountain

2024 September 1: Heron and Flower

2024 August 31: Pointing Up and Down

2024 August 29: Sunken Garden, Perfect

2024 August 28: Ride Around the Seawall, Busy

2024 August 27: New Otter Pups!

2024 August 26: Shakespeare; And, At the Aquarium

2024 August 25: Two Kinds of Coleus

2024 August 23: Zinnia

2024 August 22: Development is Big

2024 August 21: Beech Nuts

2024 August 20: Bluecrown Passionflower

2024 August 19: Ducks on a Log

2024 August 18: Hollyhock

2024 August 17: Seaside Fleabane

2024 August 16: More Ravine Trail

2024 August 15: Lisianthus

2024 August 14: Phone addiction at Beaver Lake

2024 August 13: Japanese Andromeda

2024 August 12: Plants with Veins

2024 August 7: A Peeled Truck

2024 August 3: One Ugly Flower

2024 August 1: Sunset the Colour of Blood

2024 July 31: Flowers I Misnamed

2024 July 30: Visit to the Sea

2024 July 29: Swallows

2024 July 28: Ready for their Closeup

2024 July 27: Spacing, Then and Now (Pandemic ends)

2024 July 26: Fuschia Rocks!

2024 July 25: Old House, Old Tree, Old Crow

2024 July 24: Spear Thistle

2024 July 22: Lost Lagoon Scum

2024 July 21: Mt. Baker, 5AM

2024 July 20: 33rd Anniversary! Spiders and Spray

2024 July 19: Verbena

2024 July 17: Efficient Housing in West Kelowna

2024 July 6: Last Post for a Week: Lily

2024 July 5: Clearing Out Beairsto Bounty (II)

2024 July 4: Clearing Out Beairsto Bounty (I)

2024 July 3: Rose Garden is Back for 2024, Baby!

2024 July 2: Green and Red

2024 July 1: Canada Day Birds

2024 June 30: Long Exposure at Bolton

2024 June 29: Fuschia Shock

2024 June 26-27: Splendor in the Grass

2024 June 25: Under the Canopy

2024 June 24: Short and Wide

2024 June 23: Catching Up With Allan

2024 June 22: I Got Back to Work!

2024 June 20: I Got Into The Newspaper

2024 June 19: Deer and Sticky Willie

2024 June 18: Think Pink!

2024 June 17: Alan's New Flowers: Busy Lizzie

2024 June 16: Flock Gathers Below My Podium

2024 June 15: Bell with an Ant

2024 June 14: Just Ducky

2024 June 13: Rugosa Rose, and Oh, Deer!

2024 June 12: Azalea

2024 June 11: Beairsto Backlog

2024 June 10: Resumption of Dora's Page with Alan!

2024 June 6: The Great Calgary Mainbreak of 2024

2024 June 5: Rainy Day Pictures

2024 June 1: Allium and Pansy

2024 May 31: Rose Garden Up and Running

2024 May 30: Beaver Lake Lily Pads

2024 May 29: Low Tide

2024 May 28: Duck Couple with Two Ponds

2024 May 27: 12 Geese Parents, 20 goslings

2024 May 26: Yellow-White Iris

2024 May 27: 12 Geese Parents, 20 goslings

2024 May 25: Happy Park Crowd

2024 May 24: Flowers from Alan and Loblaw

2024 May 23: Not-Dead Tree and the Lordly Goose

2024 May 22: Layers of Flowers at the Golf Course

2024 May 21: Siberian Bugloss

2024 May 20: Streets of Flowers

2024 May 19: Rhodo Rampage

2024 May 18: Stand of Bamboo?

2024 May 17: Two Gardens, One Ready, One Done

2024 May 16: Swampwading, Dry Pool

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