Things I learned lately 22 Dec

• The Calgary ring road is finally completed, 10 months ahead of schedule. It circles the city at a total length of 101 km.
• Most taxis in Germany are Mercedes Benz sedans.
• The first regular TV broadcast, albeit only a couple hours per day, was the BBC in 1936. You could only get reception within 40 km of the tower.
• Windsor Ontario has more north/south oriented streets than east/west because of its early history of building the elongated French style farm plots oriented toward the river.
• Windsor has North America’s only city bus that crosses an international border, the tunnel bus to Detroit.
• Murderbot, a character in a series of sci-fi books I’ve read, is being made into an Apple TV series. Yay!!
• At its peak in 2007, there were over 5,000 Quiznos worldwide. Now there are 359.
• The very first steam powered locomotive railway was the Stockton-Darlington line in the UK in 1825.
• The Tesla Model Y is breaking sales records all over the world, especially Denmark.
• US Tesla sales (as of Oct 2023) for 2023 were over 325,000 vehicles. The next 19 brands totalled 215,000 in the same period.
• The top 5 selling electric cars in the US in 2023 are the Model Y; Model 3; Bolt: ID.4 and Mustang Mach-e.
• The BYD Dolphin, a Chinese made EV about the size of a Chevy Bolt, sells in Australia starting at AUS$39,000. It features up to 490 km of range and features a new blade battery design.