As is typical of all central planning schemes, a particular narrative is always pursued at the expense of a whole host of relevant details. Enough relevant details, in fact, to derail the whole scheme.
We’ll need one public charging “port” for every 20 EVs on the road in the current initial phase of adoption, according to one Natural Resources Canada study. As charging speeds increase — and EVs become more popular — that ratio may drop to one station per 50 cars. If you’re quick with math, that means those 50,000 stations the government is boasting about building are good for about 2.5 million EVs at best, and just a million at worst. If you want to understand how woefully inadequate that seemingly ambitious plan is, do the long division with the almost 30 million light-duty vehicles currently registered in Canada.
I don’t think you understand the plan here comrade. Very few will have cars and those will be party officials. Now shut up and eat your bug burger.
Exactly
Public transit for the masses, limos for Justin and Jagmeet.
And you will subsidize Justin’s and Jagmeet’s vehicles.
Precisely James. Bang on.
Not to worry … as soon as the masses adopt EV’s in any significant numbers … the elites will find some other novelty car to satisfy their elitist tendencies. They won’t be caught dead driving what the masses drive. Perhaps they’ll suddenly discover nitrogen powered cars ? How kewl. How utterly … new.
They will be on to something when they find just the right amount of spark.
There are about 1500 charging stations in Montreal. It costs about $1 per hour to connect to one. I pay about 0.07 cents Cdn per kWh. Hydro Quebec pays Newfoundland about 0.0045 cents per kWh for electricity. (The last time I checked, all of Hydro Quebec’s surplus was due to Churchill Falls.)
Then again, Levesque warned Smallwood of the deal.
Do the math.
Math is hard.
Yes.. and the faster the recharge the more dangerous it becomes.. So lets dig everything up and put wind mills and solar panels everywhere for a billion trillion dollars.. Then the breakthrough will happen and it was all for nothing..
Our leaders are idiots..
… but our idiot leaders friends are getting $$$RICH$$$ on the taxpayers dollar.
Big Oil made their money the old fashioned way … in the free marketplace. Big non- Oil makes it the new fashioned way … off government edict.
Central Planning.
Another great success.
By the never done nothings and the educated beyond their intelligence crowd..Funny how the “Great Plan” always fails and the fools with their bandits never admit their mistakes..
The failure of their idiotic schemes,which always,without fail,run counter to human nature,is because of those evil naysayers.
Everybody gets a free Unicorn,this will solve all the transport problems..
What do you mean,”There are no unicorns?”..”And who told you there is no such things as unicorns?
Our experts say,everybody gets a free…The great plan requires it.
No one is asking the fundamental question…..
The eco nutters don’t want gas, don’t want oil, don’t want coal and don’t want nuclear, so WTF IS THE ELECTRICITY GOING TO COME FROM?
Here in the UK we have 39 million fossil fuel vehicles plus 25 million homes which are currently heated by gas.
We also have 11,000+ wind turbines. A couple of Sundays ago, at 5.30 in the afternoon, the demand was 30GW and the bird choppers were supplying a massive 5GW.
I firmly believe that over the course of the next few months we will see a softening of ‘the planet is dying / burning up / oceans boiling’ nonsense ‘cos if things get too bad the peeps will start to rebel and outright reject the net zero bollocks (which the elites definitely do NOT want to happen), so I expect to see some, “yes, global warming is a problem but it’s not as bad as we thought” ‘science’ to begin appearing.
I filled the bike up yesterday, Esso Synergy Supreme, £2.06 per litre. Twenty Nine f’ing quid!!!!
Oh, for the good old days – 1978, 3 1/2 gallons in the RD for £2.78 (£12 in todays’ money).
This is exactly the problem nobody is addressing. Where will the electricity come from. Only a moron would answer from a battery. But that is the current answer.
Okay, when people realise this was a waste of money, whose pension will be fleeced to repay these pious morons’ money?
Will it be Hans Gruber?
The ICE ushered in prosperity like no invention ever. The war against it is a war against humanity. These people want us dead.
Should have been posted under the heading “So Predictable”. Just another crisis for the left to enrich themselves solving. I saw the recent story that at Glastonbury, the EV chargers were powered by…diesel generators.
Functional Unit 2.
Envisage a trailer similar to that the Goldwing Riders employ ,complete with diesel generator and short cord to electric car.
Incorporate a software/hardware mod to allow the battery to charge while moving and your “clean electric car ” now has useful range..
As a diesel electric,pushing the extra weight and power loss of a large battery bank..
Next “improvement ” ditch the battery.
Power to weight ratio improves.
Next power gain,ditch the electric generator,electric drive motors and switch gear..
And there you have it,a high efficency turbo diesel.
The “Cleanest car” you can currently buy.
Go green.
As in Gang Green.
Gangrene of civil society.
Yes ,they really are this stupid.
For our Progressive Comrades,insist that they know better than you,how you shall live your life and what you may aspire to.
Death really is too good for them.
These are people who would appreciate Vogon Poetry.
The popular pastimes of our medieval forefathers,make more sense with every passing day.
Some people are so evil and stupid,or stupidly evil,that dreaming up new and exotic ways of removing them takes a whole village.
On the brighter side,the wonders of modern wishful thinking,makes it seem the “Clean Electric Car” will be a self solving problem.
Very much like Ontario Snowmobilers who insist on riding across thin ice.
The problem is not charging stations. These are easy to build. And most people will want to charge at home overnight anyway.
No, the problem is electricity and the distribution grid. Imagine having a lot of gas stations and no gas. This is where we are heading with the electric car.
To accommodate the complete transition to Evs we will need to double our electricity grid over the next 10 years. It took us over 100 years to get to this point. It’s not going to happen.
I wonder if South Africa’s illegal strikes against power utilities have raised concerns over the “power” handed to the unionized power utility workers…
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-see-repeat-worst-power-cuts-yet-2022-06-28/
Their math is stupid. Most people charge at home overnight and seldom need a fill. That’s what my sister does with her Model 3 and she does 60 to 100 km per day.
EVs will double the demand for electricity over the next 30 years. This should be the focus not fill stations which the private sector is already doing.
According to the Canadian Fuels Association, there are 11,908 retail gasoline stations in Canada.
Canada will replace these with millions of chargers between public and home units. On-street parking in front of your house will not support a charger: you need a garage or parking pad to house your charger.