Utopia, you are standing in it!

Towing is not suitable for EVs
All wheels should ideally be off the ground when moving EVs from point to point. But now a diesel rescue van can generate enough of a boost charge to enable stranded drivers to get to the nearest charge point in their own EV – in parts of the UK at least.

In readiness for the UK’s expected electric vehicle boom, the RAC has developed its EV Boost system – the first lightweight mobile EV-charger capable of giving stranded out-of-charge cars a power boost from one of its standard orange roadside rescue vans, says NextGreenCar.

The bespoke solution can be rolled-out to hundreds of patrol vehicles ensuring the RAC can match the scale of demand as electric vehicle ownership grows in the coming years.

Lack of public enthusiasm for much-touted electric cars wasn’t overcome by these relatively low-cost offerings. Where they think a sales boom is going to come from is a mystery.

An all-electric car-sharing scheme in London is being scrapped next month in a setback to the capital’s ambitions to get more polluting vehicles off the road, says the Evening Standard.

French-owned Bluecity, which ran a fleet of distinctive red battery-powered cars, said its £5-per-half hour service was no longer financially viable after it secured deals with only three London councils. It will officially shut down on February 10.

A second car-sharing club, German-owned DriveNow, is pulling out of London at the end of next month. It operated 130 electric BMW i3 cars out of a total fleet of more than 700 vehicles.

Writing in the National Post Conrad Black asks the question: What did Canadians do to deserve this government? Excerpts below with my bolds and images.

Canada is a great country crossing the desert of self-chosen and misguided leadership. There is no vision except platitudes and quixotry

Following the decisive defeat of the international left in the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the collapse of international communism and the defection of China to the virtues of a market economy (though still with a heavy command ingredient), the international left, evicted from power and even intellectual respectability, fetched up in the camp of the conservationists, those who cared most demonstratively for the environment. They shouldered aside the long-standing opponents of untreated effluent and advocates for natural habitats, and assaulted capitalism from a new quarter, waving the green flag of ecological radicalism rather than the red banner of Marx.

Introduction

In 2009, a Christian mother of five, Aasiya Noreen (AKA Asia Bibi), was arrested and charged with blasphemy under S. 295C of Pakistan’s Penal Code.[1] In 2010, Aasiya was sentenced to death for “insulting the Prophet”.[2] Aasiya’s case has garnered international attention,[3] and owing not only to the unconvincing case against her[4] but also the assassinations of two politicians associated with her case – Punjab governor Salman Taseer and Christian minorities minister Shabhaz Bhatti –[5] Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy law (hereon ‘blasphemy law’) has been placed under an increasingly intense spotlight.[6] In 1986, Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which is a legislative colonial relic of pre-partitioned India,[7] was amended under the military governance of General Zia-ul Haq to include the death penalty.[8] In 1991, the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan struck down the option for life imprisonment, prescribing death and a heavy fine as obligatory punishments under S 295 C,[9] which reads:

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