They run cargo bikes in Montreal. Have for a long time, actually. They're used for document deliveries, mostly.

Makes a lot of sense for document delivery, though.

They use cargo bikes in Montreal. Consider that UPS deliveres a lot more than large parcels!

Definitely. I’m friends with three people who have Class 1 drivers licenses - legal to drive literally any road-vehicle with wheels. None of them drive trucks for a living - all have unrelated jobs. Why? Primarily, money. Why work incredibly long weeks and make $55k-60k/yr - in a sedentary, high-risk environment?…

Yup. We have a cottage, which we can not legally stay in for more than 1/3 of the year. It’s taxed as a cottage (it’s very cheap, annually) and comes with some simple stipulations like that. Curiously, it also doesn’t have a mailing address - USPS will not deliver mail there. 

Of note:
120V 15A
120V 20A
240V 15A
240V 30A
240V 40A
...are all supported connections. Even if you don’t have 240V 40A worth of extra capacity in your panel, you almost definitely have 120V 20A and that’s still more than plenty for all but the most intense use cases. 

Imagine “choppy over bumps like a ‘90s Tercel” combined with “body roll like a ‘90s Lumina". It's really unique.

Maybe if you live somewhere rural as hell, a redesigned Excusrion would be useful. For any of us who live in dense cities, it would be nothing other than a massive pain in the ass to drive around. I primarily drive alone, or with one passenger: anything larger than a hatchback is just extra bulk for no benefit.

The Mirage 5Mt is awful. The gearing ratios are really tall for the 3 cylinder engine - like they lifted it straight out of a Lancer without any change. I rented one via Turo and can absolutely confirm that it’s no damn good at anything at all. In context, I honestly would call the Accent, the Smart and the Fiat 500 a…

It’s... you really have to experience one to see just how bad it is. I can absolutely appreciate the Accent, the Rio5, the Fiat 500, the Fiesta. The Mirage genuinely hasn’t got any redeeming qualities. It handles like garbage. The manual transmission’s gearing ratios very tall - it feels like they just took the manual…

Even at that point, the Mirage still doesn’t make sense. Consider, you could buy an Accent for about $11,000 in its most basic format. It’s a far nicer car than the Mirage in every respect. 

I had one as a Turo rental. It’s the worst modern car I’ve driven, by a wide margin. It’s the first time, in a long time, that I’ve disliked driving a small car. It has no redeeming qualities. Tons of body roll, bad seats, poor steering feel, frankly bad handling, bad brakes and no power.

It’s hard to remember things you’ve forgotten. For me, as a Canadian? Lincoln, Chrysler, Cadillac.

Amosr definitely. I can matter of factly that the difference between a Prius C with cruise, and one without cruise, is the cruise stalk itself. 

Yeah definitely. When the bike is $89, it's a "fix it yourself, or don't fix it" bike.

Strictly speaking: quality is a measure of how well the product conforms to it’s specified design. In this case, you could call the Malibu a high quality, low specification car. The factories which made and assembled the components did so at the very best those components could be made and assembled: the engineering,…

Was going to say! These cars were $3000 all day long, in 2015 - with reasonable specs! A friend bought a “loaded” (Bluetooth, power everything, CVT, body colored mirrors and ha dles, allow wheels, 1.8L) 2009 in 2016 for $6500 CAD with something like 90,000 km on it.

Interesting! Common on trucks around BC. 

Lets not compare 160hp from a gasoline engine to 110hp from an EV. They're absolutely not apples-to-apples. 

I love the silence of EVs.