Things I learned lately 22 Sep

• More than 60% of residential properties in Calgary are zoned to only allow single family homes as a default.
• Recently, Tesla opened their 50,000th charging stall.
• Based on current data accumulated from many years of EV ownership statistics, if you buy an EV and keep it at least 8 years, put at least 20,000 km on it each year, with gas prices at a minimum of $1.40 per litre, you will have spent less money on TCO (total cost of ownership) than a similar gas power car.
  
  
  
• Quebec and BC now also offer financial incentives to buy used electric vehicles, not just new ones.
• David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario from age 2 to 8.
• The ‘n’ in the 7 eleven logo is in lowercase, but the other letters are upper case.
• Although thought of as the quintessential American band, The Band’s members, except for Levon Helm, were Canadian. Rick Danko born in Blayney ON; Garth Hudson in Windsor ON; Richard Manuel in Stratford ON; Robbie Robertson in Toronto ON.
• Some people don’t like the term ‘toiletry bag’, so they refer to them as Dopp Kits.
• Peachland never became a direct part of the Canadian railway system, but they did build a small railway just long enough to load rail cars with local produce and move them along the rails to the dock, where they rolled onto a barge (with rails). The barge took the cars to Kelowna, where the cars were unloaded and formed into trains that headed north to the main line.