“Canada's incentive program for zero-emissions vehicles, known as iZEV, was suspended more than a year ago after it ran out of money due to high demand.”
Canadian consumers: we want EVs!
Government of Canada: Hello, we're from 2005. Let's do Fuel Efficiency!
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EV price subsidies dont work well with ending tariffs on Chinese cars. And subsidies knock out Chinese EVs main purpose, driving DOWN the price of cars in Canada.
Subsidising local auto makers to help lower THEIR cost of manufacturing, drives auto makers to make cheaper cars, electric cars.
So we MUST LOUDLY DEMAND transition to electric subsidies to makers, through workers.
Carney could identify thousands of workers as "at risk to trumps tariffs" or something, guarantee half their union pay if they are hired to advance a battery electric vehicle economy. For example.
Purchase subsidy in Canada isnt selling cars.
Yay cheap Chinese EVs. Drive costs down. Yay local EV production.
Other methods may work better, have fewer flaws, but lowering local vehicle cost is a PRIMARY goal, in the transition.
I still think the best option is for the Federal Government to create a crown corporation building EV's and selling them domestically at cost... it guarantees jobs in Canada and it makes EV's cheap in Canada (since the crown corporation can be mandated to produce non-luxury EV's).
Plus the total cost would be a fraction of what was spent on TMX with significantly more benefits for Canadians.
Sure. Methods to get support to jobs, not corps, to building the transition not protecting corporations.
Canada rescued Chrysler and General Motors when they failed, bankrupted.
Canada has earned the right to protect those billions in investment, and the billions needed now, to deal with world corporate billionaire coups.
So really sure. Any level of organizational insurance our policies expand jobs, fight climate collapse.
we really need an incentive program for e-BIKES
of course... it's actually much worse than just policy dredged up from the days of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper… it's a gigantic step backward at the behest of fossil fuel interests in order to keep people burning fossil fuels.
EV mandates should be 'sold’ as an affordability measure! Because they are!
No, I don't mean grants, I mean everyday use. Real impacts on your pocket book. How much money would you save if you *never* went to a gas station. Just think about that for second.
Then we can do the math.
My 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric just passed 251152km (palindrome!) yesterday and gets around 6km/kWh on average.
I pay about $0.13/kWh at home to charge so that's $0.02/km. That is $5,023.04 in total energy expenses so far.
Our 2012 Toyota Prius C is at 270,000km and gets about 5.5L/100km or 0.055L/km. At (a discounted) $1.25/L that’s $0.04/km or $10,800 in total energy expenses so far.
Per kilometre the EV is half the cost to 'fuel' than one of the most fuel efficient gas cars out there.
In general, why would *anyone* choose something that costs double to run!?
And yet, the government doesn't sell this as ‘affordability’ it sells it as 'environmental responsibility'.
Let's be honest, they do that because they *know* the environmental message is *less* motivating than money.
Now I said at the beginning, "imagine" never going to the gas station. Obviously that doesn't mean you're fueling for free... but there is another overlooked aspect to this.
Fueling your car is a day to day thing. It's one of the biggest pulls on people's bank accounts precisely because it is such a frequent cost.
Now imagine if that 'bill' was just rolled into your home electricity bill. Which you could do other things to reduce cost overall?
EVs are not just an environmental game changer, they are a financial one for the average person.
That is why oil companies are throwing absolutely everything they have at government (and also fomenting fascism) to keep their good times going, at our expense.
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