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Plugged In

Plugged In connects you to the ever-expanding Canadian electric vehicle network, featuring in-depth interviews with experts, engineers and everyday EV owners from across the country and from around the world. Hosted by Postmedia Driving senior editor Andrew McCredie, Plugged In updates once a week.

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S10EP01 – EV expert Ken Bokor’s top-five new EVs for...

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2025/10/29

We kick off season 10 of the Plugged In podcast with Canadian EV expert Ken Bokor offering up his top five new EVs. That’s more difficult as it sounds as there are over 40 all-new, all-electrics arriving in Canadian showrooms in the next year. As always, Ken, who hosts the EV Revolution Show on YouTube, brings a consumer-focused lens to his picks, with insights into why these EVs will stand out from the crowded pack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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S09EP11 – B.C axes EV rebate program BONUS EPISODE

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2025/05/04

We all knew and expected government EV rebate and incentive programs would end, but is now a good time to expect electric vehicles to stand on their own against less-expensive ICE vehicles? To get some perspective on this, and on other issues facing Canada’s automotive industry — and as you know there are many — Global Automakers of Canada CEO and president David Adams provides some great insights into where the EV segment is going in Canada, what needs to be done to keep the adoption momentum

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S09EP07 – View from the C-Suite: Ford of Canada’s...

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2025/02/12

Ford of Canada sells three all-electric vehicles, the F-150 Lightning pickup truck, the E-Transit cargo van and the Mustang March-E, the latter of which outsold it’s gasoline powered stablemates three-to- one in 2024. That all contributed to a fantastic sales year last year for Ford’s EV segment, posting an amazing 66.1 per cent increase. On this episode of our special View from the C-Suite series, Andrew McCredie talks with Paul Roy, the man who oversees Ford of Canada’s Model e program. Among

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S09EP09 – View from the C-Suite: Toyota Canada’s...

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2025/02/12

One couldn’t fault Toyota for feeling a little smug these days, as they are reaping the benefits — or at least not suffering as other automakers — of not pushing all their chips into the all-electric vehicle pot. They certainly took a lot of heat these past few years for not pivoting quicker to build and sell EVs, but now that wait-and-see attitude seems to be paying off.On this episode of our special View from the C-Suite podcast series, Toyota Canada President and CEO Cyril Dimitris sits down to

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32:59

S09EP08 – View from the C-Suite: Audi/VW’s Vito Paladino

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2025/02/12

On this episode of our special View from the C-Suite podcast series, Audi Canada President and VW Groups Canada and CEO Vito Paladino joins the podcast to talk about why headwinds will not slow these automaker’s all-electric vehicle plans. He also explains why he welcomes the challenge of Chinese-built EVs, and how he’s not too concerned about the disappearance of government incentives and rebates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:30

S09EP06 – View from the C-Suite: Hyundai Canada’s...

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2025/02/12

Steve Flamand of Hyundai Canada sits down with Andrew McCredie to talk about his company’s strong presence in the EV sector in Canada and what the future looks like in that segment. His company is firing on all kilowatts with 2024 being a very strong sales year for Hyundai in Canada. Hyundai sales improved 13.9 per cent over 2023. And on the electrified front — that being a mix of hybrids, plug-hybrids and all- electrics — Hyundai delivered 45,159 vehicles to Canadian customers, representing a

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S09EP05 – View from the C-Suite: Volvo Canada’s Matt...

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2025/02/12

Way back in 2019, Volvo committed to building nothing but ‘electrified’ vehicles by 2022, and hit that mark with a mix of mild-hybrids, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and full electric vehicles. The global brand also laid out plans to build nothing but vehicles with a plug by 2023, but last year adjusted that to 90 per cent with the remaining 10 per cent to consist of mild hybrid models. On this episode of our special View from the C-Suite podcast series, Volvo Canada managing director Matt Girgis joins

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S09EP10 – View from the C-Suite: Kia Canada’s Elias...

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2025/02/12

If you haven’t been paying attention, here’s a newsflash: Kia is making some of the most stylish and most technologically advanced all-electric vehicles available in Canada. And the great news is, as you’ll hear from Kia Canada vice-president and COO Elias El-Achhab on this episode of our special View from the C-Suite podcast series, there are two more all-new Kia EVs coming to Canada very soon. He’ll also explain why Kia Canada is investing in public charging, and recount his first-ever experience

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S09EP04 – The zero-emission job site

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2024/12/05

You’ve heard about the electric vehicle revolution, but what about the electric landscaping revolution? Since 2000 a New Westminster, BC company called The Silent Gardener has committed to reducing its carbon footprint in a business that traditionally has relied heavily on fossil fuels to get the job done. Today, its entire fleet of work vehicles is all-electric, as is all the landscaping equipment.Company owner Sheldon Ridout joins the podcast today to tell us about the philosophy behind his

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S09EP03 – Jaguar - Can this Cat come back?

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2024/11/22

Facing the very real prospect of tumbling into outright irrelevance, storied marque Jaguar is rolling the dice on a complete transformation. The plan, with the first new model expected in late 2026, involves becoming a low-volume, high price, all-electric automaker going toe to toe with high-end automakers Bentley, Aston Martin and even Rolls-Royce. On today’s episode of the Plugged In Podcast, David Booth, a lifelong Jaguar fan incidentally, questions not only the plan itself but more importantly,

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S09EP02 – Some good news about battery degradation

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2024/10/16

Battery degradation. Like range anxiety, charging infrastructure and cold-weather running, how long a new electric vehicle’s battery will last is one of the very real concerns would-be, first-time EV buyers have when considering to go all-electric. Battery degradation is a big deal. No one wants to see their range go from say, 400 kilometres to 300 kilometres during the life of their vehicle.On this week’s episode we’re diving into some real-world battery degradation data with Charlotte Argue, a

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S09EP01 – Meeting Federal EV sales targets is unlikely

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2024/10/02

One of the more contentious issues surrounding electric vehicles in Canada are so-called ZEV mandates, which sets target dates for EV sales. Several provinces have such mandates, including British Columbia and Quebec, but it is the federal government mandate that has really puts stakes in the ground. As a reminder, Canada’s zero emission vehicle mandate requires automakers ensure that 20 per cent in 2026, 60 per cent in 2030 and 100 per cent in 2035 of their vehicles sold in Canada are ZEVs. The

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34:47

S08EP06 – Celebrating Everything Electric

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2024/07/10

Misinformation. Add that to hunger, thirst and war as existential threats to our survival. In this age of dubious news sources, weaponized artificial intelligence and bad state actors, society has never been so polarized. That’s certainly true of the electric vehicle segment, where bogus studies from both sides of the issue muddy the waters and further confuse consumers. Our guest Dan Caesar, and the team he leads at Fully Charged and Everything Electric, has made it a career to provide honest

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S08EP05 – Charging up on sun power

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2024/06/26

Just as electric vehicles are seen as a sustainable solution to the world’s transportation needs, solar energy is considered essential to achieving our planet’s clean energy needs. Which makes the combination of the two seem only natural. That’s certainly what GoSun founder and CEO Patrick Sherwin thought, and the result is a clever, roof-mounted and expandable solar power panel that plugs directly into the vehicle that is carrying it. It’s an obvious solution for off-grid camping, van lifers and

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S08EP04 – The wheels of the EV school bus go round...

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2024/06/12

User-case is a term often associated with electric vehicles, as while some people’s needs and requirements of a vehicle can be perfectly suited to an EV, others will find major shortfalls in going all-electric. The same is true for heavy trucks and buses, and one of the clear winning user cases for an EV bus is the variety that picks up and drops off school children. To prove that point, Ontario-based Pollution Probe teamed with several partners on the Calgary Electric School Bus Pilot

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S08EP03 – Converting classics to all-electric

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2024/05/29

It all started in the depths of Covid, when Sloane Paul wanted to make her classic Bronco more ‘driver-friendly,’ and not so loud. But when she searched for a company that could convert her beautiful truck into an electric vehicle near her Toronto home, she came up empty handed. The entrepreneur in her sensed an opportunity, and after convincing her clever brother Tom Chep to join forces with her and figure out how to turn the Bronco into an EV, the duo created a company to do just that for others

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S08EP02 – Tesla talk, myth busting and new EVs

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2024/05/15

Ken Bokor is the host of the EV Revolution Show on YouTube, and for years has done some of the most in-depth sales tracking of electric vehicles in Canada. He’s also a loud and proud Tesla, owner and while he does see some logic to the recent upheavals to the automaker’s workforce and operating environment, he can’t help but admit he is a little concerned about the direction Elon Musk is taking the company. Ken remains bullish about EV adoption in Canada, and to prove the point lists off a number

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38:52

S08EP01 – Going with the Flo

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2024/05/01

We’re kicking off Season 8 of the Plugged In podcast with guest Nathan Yang, the Vice-President and Chief Product Officer for Flo, a Quebec-based company that has installed over 100,000 public, private and residential EV chargers since its founding in 2009.We begin with a birds-eye view of Canada’s public charging network — the successes, failures and possible solutions — then dive into on how Flo is playing a part, along with a number of other charging solution companies, in expanding and

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39:46

S07EP07 – The electrification of fleets is a thing

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2023/12/13

Increasingly we’re seeing fully electric cargo vans and trucks zipping around our neighbourhoods as an increasing number of businesses are discovering the benefits of going electric.On this episode of the Plugged In podcast, host Andrew McCredie is joined by Charlotte Argue Senior Manager, Sustainable Mobility at Canada-based Geotab, the world’s largest telematics company. Charlotte has been active in the electric vehicle space since way back in 2009, and her current job is to focus on enabling

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S07EP06 – In the market for a new EV? Don’t miss this...

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2023/11/15

On today’s episode of the Plugged In podcast we welcome back long-time friend of the show Ken Bokor, one of the country’s pre-eminent EV experts. Not only does the Toronto-based host of the EV Revolution Show on YouTube know the technical aspects of electric vehicles, but his detailed research into sales data also provides an up-to-date snapshot of where things stand in terms of EV adoption in Canada. We’ll hear his thoughts on the headwinds that electric vehicles sales and production are currently

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