REMINDER: Raymond Leury | State of Worldwide Electric Vehicle Adoption and Canada’s EV Mandate | Wednesday September 24, 2025 12-2 pm | CACOR Live
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rEMINDER: CACOR cordially invites you to a Luncheon Meeting
Topic: State of Worldwide Electric Vehicle Adoption and Canada’s EV Mandate
Speaker: Raymond Leury
Date: Wednesday September 24, 2025
Time: 12-2 pm
Place: The Carleton Tavern 223 Armstrong Street, Ottawa
Cost: $25 for members, their spouses. Please bring $25 in cash to pay. The upstairs room is accessed at the front of the building when you enter. There will be some signage. At the top of the stairs you will be greeted by colleagues and you can register and pay.
Parking: there are about 10 spaces behind the Tavern for customers and metered parking across the street. There is also free parking on the streets a few blocks away and of course transit transportation on Wellington.
Please confirm attendance by replying to this e-mail mad...@sympatico.ca on or before Monday September 22nd. Please remember that CACOR is responsible for payment of guests who have registered. If you register and need to change your commitment, please inform us as well before Monday September 22nd. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. We unfortunately will follow up with an invoice for those who were not able to honour their commitment.
This is also a Hybrid Meeting using normal CACOR Live protocols.
Topic: Raymond Leury | State of Worldwide Electric Vehicle Adoption and Canada’s EV Mandate | September 24, 2025 | from 12-2 pm | CACOR Live
Time: Sep 24, 2025 12:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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About the presentation:
State of Worldwide Electric Vehicle Adoption and Canada’s EV Mandate
With the wide availability of inexpensive high energy lithium-ion batteries, the transportation sector has been transitioning away from gas (petrol) and diesel towards electric vehicles. As battery prices have continued to drop, the trend has accelerated driven by favourable economics.
Progress has been uneven because of factors such variability in regulatory regimes, introduction and removal of subsidies as well as misinformation and political forces.
In this session we will review the state of electrification in various countries as well as the factors driving adoption. We will conclude by explaining why the federal sales mandate is critical to driving adoption and make additional recommendations that would further accelerate electric vehicle adoption.
About the Speaker:
Raymond’s academic background includes several years spent studying pure sciences, focused on chemistry, at the University level. After obtaining a BCom in Management Information Systems and an MBA from the University of Ottawa, Raymond’s career was focused on strategic consulting and implementing change in the Information Technology space both as an internal specialist and as an external consultant. The combination of a technical and business backgrounds allows Raymond to analyse situations based on factors that run the spectrum from technical feasibility to user acceptance.
Technical feasibility and business feasibility had to be aligned for any project to succeed. Every customer engagement included projects to implement technical changes that in many cases had significant impacts on the stakeholders and their day-to-day jobs. Technology implementations are straightforward. Getting organizations to embrace change is much more challenging.
Raymond retired six years ago from an Information Technology career. Taking Al Gore’s Climate Reality Corps training in 2017 has reignited Raymond passions for the environment and addressing climate change in particular. As President of the Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa (EVCO), with his team he has spearheaded a number of initiatives including the successful campaign to get OC Transpo to transition to a fully electric bus fleet. Raymond has spent much of his time researching and advocating for EVs of all sizes from light duty to medium and heavy-duty vehicles. Questions about energy and materials required for the electric transition led Raymond to study if and how it would be possible to develop and implement the necessary technology within the confines of the limited resources that we have on our one and only planet.
Since retirement, leveraging skills developed during his career, Raymond has focused on reducing GHGs by driving change in the areas of electrification including the transition to electric transportation.
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– The CACOR Sponsor Madeleine Aubrey
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