The Big Battery Factory

[Vic Patterson]

5 hours ago, threegee said:

So-called Hybrids: exactly why someone would buy into all the problems of lesser BEVs, and all the problems of ICE at one and the same time, is something I find hard to understand.  It's always amusing to see someone with a plug-in hybrid trying hard to avoid buying dinosaur juice, though!

Not yet suitable for me, -40c snowing 130 km to nearest fast charge station (if they have one yet!) round trip to the city 900km plus. Okay for local shopping. 

Edited December 18, 2024 by Vic Patterson

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/north-east-suppliers-sought-landmark-31436618?utm_source=inyourarea.co.uk&utm_medium=iya-app&fbclid=IwY2xjawJvDTVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHi0eMNsqaviNgK8kv51ZUAfbenEM89HvLP9PpsVVC2_QRj7JVD0l6uyDhVy6_aem_mO_PBkDQX402OCn54xVsOA

 

[Vic Patterson]

Any progress/ updates?

[threegee]

Hi Vic!

I suspect we are going to hear something from your good friend "the evil orange man" quite soon. Maybe one of those Gordon Brown things of announcing the very same money multiple times, on the assumption that the average voter has a very short memory. 😀

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/blackrock-invest-700-million-uk-data-centres-during-trump-visit-sky-news-reports-2025-09-13/

[Vic Patterson]

Arch enemy  #1 "the evil orange man" is no friend of ours, he certainly can't be trusted and I hope the project isn't relying on him! Our similar projects are on hold partly because of the instability he is causing, Canada is diversifying our economy because of his hostility and radical changes .

[threegee]

I

16 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

... is no friend of ours, he certainly can't be trusted...

He will do what all politicos do and try to capitalise on things which mostly would have happened anyway, because the money was right.

When you say he can't be trusted I think there are an awful lot of people who'd disagree with you. That's because he's one of the few leaders in modern times that has actually done what he claimed he was going to do. They'd say that a lot of the trading relationships with the US were fundamentally unbalanced. That very many countries had been parasitic on the US economy for a very long time, and that it was ordinary US workers who'd paid the price.

Brexit started to unwind some of the unbalanced trading relationship that the UK had, and that was a product of ordinary working people seeing some of the reality of what the political classes had been up to. Unfortunately we still allow ourselves to be guilt tripped by the Irish Republic, and prop up their economy, despite their repeated efforts to undermine ours.

I'm not sure what province you are in,  but I've been hearing rumblings that there's a fundamental split in Canada starting with Alberta then all points West. If I was living there I'd be seriously considering joining one of the separatist movements advocating a more harmonious relationship with the USA. Ditching (that UK economic reject) Carney's socialist globalism has to be the way forward for ordinary Canadians. What on earth were you lot thinking electing him of all people? He has FAIL written on his forehead!