19th General Meeting

I would like the AGM to consider an emergency motion although I will be a remote attendee.

Having a background as an electronics engineering technician and an industrial electrician, I see serious flaws in the current plans for charging stations that will seriously hinder the adoption of electric vehicles by consumers. Given that charging stations take a significant amount of time to charge an electric vehicle, we should consider electric fueling stations that change out the entire battery using quick connections and/or automated hoists.

Background
Having recently been employed by a truck retreading facility across the street from CAMI, a GM electric delivery truck manufacturing facility now experiencing a near complete layoff two things became apparent to me.
First a shortage of battery materials and finished product had made the cost of their delivery trucks prohibitive. This has been addressed through the cooperation of Ontario and Ottawa by subsidizing the construction of battery manufacturing facilities in St Thomas and Windsor Ontario.
Second, the business plan of GM carries obvious flaws as their delivery truck design would only support 4 hours maximum of continuous motoring before requiring a recharge. This is also a serious issue with consumer vehicles that will prevent consumer adoption.
Moreover upon further discovery, I found it is very apparent that EV batteries may require continuous maintenance as single cells in a multicell design are prone to failure rendering the whole battery ineffective.
This would be facilitated by regular changeouts, testing and repair of EV batteries being a far superior method than charging stations.
The battery changeout was a method that I saw and used with electric tow motors and lifts in a factory that I worked in 20 years ago and is completely feasible and desirable for automation.
I ask that this method be endorsed for further study by the government of Canada as an emergency policy proposal at our 2024 AGM.
Randy Schelhas