At a glance these look ontario-specific, am I off-base? Never heard of TVO before.

3.5mm is an audio source, USB is a data source. Any headphone with a USB plug also has to convert digital to audio, something your phone already does. USB is not a replacement by any means.

It very much depends on the pair of headphones and on the hardware of the phone.

My LG phone is a beast. Sure, it’s not quite the same audio power as a headphone amp would give, but the audio quality and convenience is fantastic.

It still degrades audio quality and that’s an area I refuse to compromise on.

The smartphone is not the expensive part of my mobile audio playback setup, I expect it to be compatible with the standard playback interface of wires.

My headphones (wired) cost more than a smartphone and I expect my handheld device to be compatible with them. I’ll rule out buying models based on this feature.

Really? They’re much better audio quality than bluetooth.

No, the need is still present. Headphone jacks are pretty essential still, wireless tech is not a replacement.

8,000 is the average annual total count, usually spread across ~3months (July, Aug, Sept). The 1,100 number quoted is currently burning today. As of August 17 the count (active and extinguished) so far this year was up to 5,765.

The size of fires is really the staggering figure with 13.75 million hectares (137,500 km² roughly the size of Arkansas or Greece) burned so far, while the average annual total burned area is usually only 2.1 million hectares.

But there’s very low likelihood that a battery will need replacing within the first 20 years.

1-5% of total range capacity per year on average

That’s nowhere near how little degredation is actually seen in the data you yourself provided.

And you’re cherry-picking the worst car in the study to highlight (Tesla Model S).

That doesn’t seem relevant to my ask of clarity on the second point that doesn’t involve accidents.

8-10yrs? Why on earth would a functioning 500km range EV that’s 10yrs old be labelled as scrap-worthy?

Care to explain? They’re a massive environmental leap forward from ICE vehicles. Many places in Canada need transport just like personal vehicles, and transportation is a huge portion of Canada’s GHG emissions. So how else would we reduce that portion of our environmental footprint?

The standard safe estimate is ~⅓ reduction when temps are around -25° to -30°, but it varies by car as to how much each degree affects that particular battery design.

You can use abetterrouteplanner.com and put in actual drives for different car models and in the settings you can set temperature, headwind, etc…

There’s a few chargers in Hearst, ~250km to the east of Geraldton (210km east of Longlac). Most EVs can easily do 250km in -36° weather. That’s one of the longest stretches of major highway in Ont without a charger, but it’s certainly short enough for the average EV to do just fine even in harsh conditions.

There’s multiple at Markville Mall, one is East Markham at the Scotiabank on HWY48, a set of them at the Hyundai Canada head office that are open to the public, and two Tesla supercharger sites in addition to the two you mentioned. That’s just the DC Fast chargers, there’s more than a few level 2 chargers at grocery stores, civic centres, and shopping malls.

Use this source: https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/analyze?fuel=ELEC and filter it to DC Fast Chargers

And there’s only 185 charging locations in Quebec (with 529 ports, which is NOT how they should be counted).

This is a bad analysis. Chargers per car is only one way to look at it. What about chargers per capita, chargers per road km, chargers person per land area, etc… oh? In all of those metrics Canadian provinces are leaders? You don’t say.

https://public.tableau.com/views/EVFastChargingPlugStandards/RegionrankingsforDCChargers

I don’t really know the area or charger quality, but there’s a 50kW Ivy station in Geraldton, a total of 38km away from Longlac, Ont.

It’s going very well in Vancouver and most of its suburbs.