Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan that requires automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles
Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan that requires automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles
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You know the best way to get automakers to convert production to EVs? Competition.
We need to open the market up to all manufacturers and have an actual free market race to make the best product. We have to stop protecting the traditional automakers with tariffs and restrictions applied to prop up their poor business choices.
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That's too logical. Instead, Carney should cut public services, and we should give another $18 billion to build a new factory producing shitty cars no one in their right mind would buy, so that his lobbyist friends can make political donations under all their family members names and call me the only adult in the room. I'll give it 7 months.
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Sales quotas?
We should be trying to build a country that requires fewer cars, not more, EV or otherwise.
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Rebates shouldn't be on vehicles, but on charging infrastructure. The current infrastructure is woefully inadequate, and the infrastructure will last many decades, a car lasts maybe 1 to 2 decades.
Electric charging being cheaper than fuel should be the primary financial incentive. HOV Lane access, and other benefits should be enough to bolster demand.
The subsidies on luxury vehicles, Tesla's specifically, were a harmful policy mistake that have given idiots talking points that will be used years from now.-
The current infrastructure is woefully inadequate
Doug Ford ripped out the chargers as soon as he got into office, and the commercial ones are mostly broken at all times.
Europe has a choice of 12 EVs under $40,000CAD. That's as cheap as they can go without Chinese government backing. But, they are compact hatchbacks, not currently fashionable with CDN consumers.
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Absolutely bonkers if these mandates are removed but tariffs on Chinese EVs remain. We have no domestic production of EVs and this will tell automakers they dont need to worry about building EVs or competing with China. These are insane policy decisions that just protect automaker profits and removes any incentive for them to adapt or compete.
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Have you read the article?
Removing a 20% additional cost for next year's models seems prudent at a time when the industry is being slapped by American tarrifs. The other bit is a 60 day pause.
Maybe long term the solution is BYD, I personally don't think every country needs its own wasteful national EV program, it's a terrible white elephant project.
Long term, turns out our auto sector is entirely dependent on America doing what they promised, which is no longer a guarantee. Changing an entire national industry is much harder than it is in video games, and yeah, deciding whether to later be largely dependent on foreign car manufacturers and fighting out what to do with those factories and workers is incredibly complicated.
Tldr; wouldn't bother with pearl clutching about how this is destroying EV adoption in Canada etc.
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CBC's coverage and your reading of it isn't critical enough of the LPC, imo. For CBC's part, their coverage surrounding Air Canada's labour issues the other week made that pretty clear.
The pause appears indefinite for now, the part you cite does not say the pause will be for 60 days, but it might be by intention that you read it that way.
The EV mandate will be paused as the government conducts a 60-day review of the policy, and is being waived for 2026 models.
I predicted Carney'd postpone this days ago in another post. My other prediction is that Assolini will not participate in a fair CUSMA renegotiation - nothing about his first 8 months suggests he will.
CPC must be pretty ecstatic. If they can ditch PP for his excessive social conservativism, they can easily win the next federal election as Carney is Conservative. Greenpeace gets it:
However, Greenpeace Canada was quick to criticize the EV mandate delay.
"What was the point of electing Mark Carney when we get Pierre Poilievre's climate policy?" said Keith Stewart, senior energy strategist with the activist group.
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turns out our auto sector is entirely dependent on America doing what they promised
Our auto sector isn't dependent on America. It's outright American. We have no Canadian auto manufacturers. We're just a resource labour colony run by the US to lower manufacturing costs.
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Bingo!
It's about corporate profits. Things like "innovation" get in the way of bigger profits. The whole north american auto industry would be belly up if it wasn't for decades of consistent corporate welfare payments from the public sector and the regulatory carve out that is the "light truck" category.
This is just more of the same, a beautifully crafted space to make vehicles with tech from the 1970's and charge $60k a pop.
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But Ford built an EV truck and no one bought them. Why are people pointing fingers at government when millions of microdicks are now driving lifted pickups all over Canada? Garbage EVs from China is not a solution.
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I heard this on the radio this morning and it ruined my morning
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Wow.
How about you actually make an affordable EV (ie actually invest in the manufacturing)? Or remove the barriers preventing BYD and others from offering their 20-30k EVs into this market? Protectionism doesnt do shit for a business that refuses to modernize and accept that their products are a major leading factor of climate change.
No one will buy them. You can buy a Nissan Leaf with under 100,000km for $6000. Teslas are >$20K used. Why? BECAUSE NO ONE IS BUYING THEM.
Why should they? Doug Ford is subsidizing gas prices.