Canada

Investment figures cited run near $100 billion, with Saskatchewan and Alberta's oil sands named as fresh industrial demand. "There is no credible plan to do that without nuclear energy," the strategy argues, listing assets few other countries can match.

Read the fine print and 2040 means start, not switch on — and a UK reactor announced in 2010 to run by 2019 is now hoping for 2030.

The specs are blunt: 1,000-volt systems, 10–70% in about five minutes even at −20°C, against Tesla's 500 kW ceiling. BYD already built 5,700 of these stations in China in roughly a year.

The reassuring answer, from people who know batteries: heat is the enemy, not speed, and BYD dips its cells in phase-changing coolant. The worried answer: flash charging is 3x faster than the fast-charging we've actually studied.