Ministry of Truth (Environment) pronounces EVs work in the cold, so we all have to buy them

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Editor’s Note: In Pipeline Online’s continuing mission to allow the people of Saskatchewan know precisely what their federal government is telling them on climate change initiatives, here’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault’s press release of Dec. 19, explaining how the federal government will move to outlaw the sale of gas and diesel light vehicles in 11 years and 13 days. This press release has quotes from no less than five federal ministers and one parliamentary secretary.

New Electric Vehicle Availability Standard will give Canadians better access to more affordable cars and cleaner air, says Guilbeault

And here’s the verbatim backgrounder:

Canada’s Electric Vehicle Availability Standard (regulated targets for zero-emission vehicles) backgrounder, verbatim. Did you know EVs now work when it’s really cold? That’s what the feds say! Must be true!

83 Replies to “Ministry of Truth (Environment) pronounces EVs work in the cold, so we all have to buy them”

  1. Idiots will wreck as much as they can and after Conservatives will come to rule over a pile of garbage, the same clowns will scream from Opposition that these mean ole Conservatives wrecked the place.

  2. The backgrounder states “ ZEVs are common in countries with cold winters like Norway, where close to 90 percent of new car sales are ZEVs”

    The population of Norway is only 5.5 million or 1/8 of Canada or about the population of southern Ontario. Most people live in urban areas in the southern part of the country. It’s a long skinny country. 1700 km long and 438 km at its widest in the south, but most of it is skinnier. So not many people need to buy many cars so it’s easy to have 90 percent new car sales. In addition they don’t have to travel far.

    As usual Gullible lies like a worn out rug.

    1. It’s also easy to get that percentage when you subsidize the things so heavily your average Josef can afford a Porsche. And so heavily tax gas vehicles a Golf costs more than said Taycan. Market fixing by government.

      1. Virtue signalling Norwegians are as puke inducing as all the rest. They export 4,000,000 bbl/day of oil and gas, have the blessing to have almost all hydro electricity and blather on to the rest of the world how great they are. They have a soverign wealth fund with over 1 Trillion dollars in it, all from exported oil. Makes me want to smash one in the face so they’ll send their wives out to fight as they are even worse pansies than Swedes.

    2. Norway’s EV ownership stats have been investigated and it was found almost all Norway EV owners also own an ICE vehicle. The ICE vehicle is needed for when they actually want to go somewhere out of town or if the weather is bad (as in cold).

  3. Conservatives won’t make things worse, but they rarely undo the damage wrought by socialists. Furthermore the momentum of extreme damage done to this country by the Liberals will only come to full force once the Conservatives gain power. Things will get drastically worse under PP for at least 5 years. Female voters will re-elect some Trudeau-like figure in short order, and the destruction of this country will resume.

    1. Yep. That’s exactly what happened in Ontario. We went from the hard left government of Bob Rae, to Mike Harris who had to clean up the mess, short stint of Ernie Eves, then Kathleen Wynne who went right back to the the same disastrous path of Bob Rae.

    2. Steve, they rarely undo the damage because they haven’t the balls or spine to make the difficult decisions on Day 1, and then carry through. I guarantee the current CPC will follow Harper’s path of incrementalism, thinking they have forever to turn the ship around, and not wanting to “frighten” Canadians by acting boldly, and with resolve.

      This same cowardice is why they won’t stand up for small-c conservative principles now, ahead of the election. Hell, they won’t even post a platform, for fear of being attacked by the Libs/Dip and it’s tame media.

      I have my doubts they’ll even act on the 2 planks they’ve talked about so far: defunding the CBC (at best, some budget cuts, but they’ll leave that beast alive), and axing the carbon tax. Watch for them to back slowly away on that one too, or make small changes to it instead of removing it.

      For history, look at their promise (in writing and verbally, as Opposition and as Gov’t) to re-write the Firearms Act. In the end, they never even tried to do any of that: they didn’t have the new legislation written , and ready to go. They never STARTED any new legislation. Instead, they tinkered around the edges, and only allowed weak private members bills, and not one gov’t sponsored Bill to fix that damned Act.

      And here we are, years later, and the current gov’t has passed C-21.

      Frankly, we have come full circle with the CPC: we began with the despised Progressive Conservatives, which led to Reform, which led to the Alliance, which led to the CPC, which is indistinguishable from the old PC’s.

      I have only contempt for the CPC. They EARNED that contempt.

      1. I’m never voting CPC ever again. I might never even vote again. I think they are bunch of retards. And no I don’t vote PPC.

        And you know, if every Bible believing church goer voted CHP they’d have some real clout, but even churchians are afraid of tipping boats.

        1. Eljay, here’s the PPC platform, it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty damned good:

          https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/platform

          I agree with you, but in a PPC way: if every so-called “Conservative” voted PPC, they’d have the country they claim they want.

          ps: I’ll go check out the CHP. I’ve heard some good things about them.

      2. “Frankly, we have come full circle with the CPC: we began with the despised Progressive Conservatives, which led to Reform, which led to the Alliance, which led to the CPC, which is indistinguishable from the old PC’s.”

        Sad, but true.

        “I have only contempt for the CPC. They EARNED that contempt.”

        Likewise. If they want my vote back, they know how to get it.

  4. Climate-Clown, Steven Guilbeault works for the WEF, but probably isn’t aware of it.
    The vast majority of Canadians cannot afford a new EV and only a fool would buy a used one with a potential battery replacement on the horizon … NOR DO WE WANT ONE.

    You don’t own your EV … it owns you.
    You will be plagued with ‘range-fear syndrome’ … and long charge time, shortage of stations.
    You will be victimized by future power-outs messing up your effort to save the planet.
    The resale value will be very low.
    There are only so many suckers and we appear to be running out because EV sales are tanking everywhere. The subsidies will end soon exacerbating the whole effort.
    I F**king hate that my tax dollars are subsidizing the idiots who buy these overgrown toys.
    I do love Elon Musk but not the EVs he sells.
    EVs are unsustainable and not the answer to the alleged climate issue.
    Batteries are best for cel phones, flash lights and vibrators. Cars need gas.
    .

    1. First question EVERYONE should ask themselves is…….HOW DID A CRIMINAL LIKE GUILBEAULT even get a job with the LIE-BERALS???? the guy is a criminal folks……sorry the LIE-BERAL MOBSTERS…………at least that is what I was told by one of those fellows taking brown envelopes full of CASH……those were the good old days eh? which liberals were caught doing that? it’s so far back I can’t remember

    1. Well at least they weigh more. Be interesting to know how quickly they go through a set of brakes. For damn certain I don’t want one of those things behind me on I-70 coming down the eastern side of the Rockies.

  6. I won’t be forced to drive EVs, the entire industry is going to collapse and we the people have been forced to fund this failed green energy boondoggle.

    1. No pb, they will force us all through other means:
      – gradually raise prices for gas vehicles so the prices would be the same
      – pile on carbon taxes for gas fuel
      – force insurance companies to higher prices for gas vehicles vs EVs
      – vilify in slave media all of us-weirdos who cling to their old gas powered vehicles
      – gradually replace gas stops with only EV chargers so we will have to search like crazy to refuel.

      1. DanC,
        You hit the nail on the head! Totalitarian regimes didn’t gain their powers overnight. They legislated them all in, slowly over time under the guise of ‘The Greater Good’.

        We are inching towards a communist state here in Canada. Brutal, absolutely brutal.

  7. If EVs did perform as well or better than internal combustion, neither regulations nor subsidies would be necessary. The free market would do the heavy lifting. That EV acceptance has been so low in North America suggests that it’s not ready for prime time and Guilbeault’s claims are questionable.

      1. I prefer understatement. “The facts suggest that Guilbeault’s claims are questionable” can be more persuasive than “Guilbeault’s a lyin’ dog-faced pony soldier.”, even if the second statement is closer to the truth.

          1. He manifests many symptoms of a political extremist, willing to ignore or downplay facts when they run counter to his delusions.

  8. With Hans Gruber aka Climate Jesus, and Spendy McBlackface in charge, Canada has become a clown show. We are the only country in the whole wide world full of people stupid enough and arrogant enough to impose a carbon tax on everything under sun. We have more oil than most countries and Filthy Canadian Liberals decide that Oil and not Abortion is a moral issue. Why would anyone want to “fight” a war for this country with these morons in charge? How would we make out with our new electric tanks and solar powered planes?? Can’t wait for the next lecture from one of these assholes. So tired of useless panzies with no balls or redeeming qualities telling us what is good for us. Bring on the revolution.

    1. Hans Gruber and Trudeau can legislate fantasy laws but the supply chain will never be able to produce the lithium for batteries and copper needed for electric motors in the quantities needed.

      This is going to be a train wreck of epic proportions.

      Case in point : Environmentalists succeed in shutting down major copper mine in Panama.
      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67565315

      1. “Hans Gruber and Trudeau can legislate fantasy laws but the supply chain will never be able to produce the lithium for batteries and copper needed for electric motors in the quantities needed.”

        You are missing it, what you said is the point. The intention is to end private vehicle ownership, not to transition to EV’s, that is just the most sneaky way to fool the gullible and get it done.

      2. I was in Panama City in November, staying in a four-star hotel in the very best part of town.

        What a shit-hole. Everything was gated off with high fences and razor wire. All windows barred up to the third storey. The University of Panama looked like a concentration camp – wasn’t sure what I was looking at at first.

        The streets and sidewalks were a shambles – garbage and debris everywhere, potholes and sinkholes, manholes with missing covers, you name it. Pistol-toting rent-a-cops at every gate and building entrance. All beaches covered in garbage except for the Smithsonian Punta Culebra Nature Center – where the turtles hatch.

        They were protesting this mine at the time. No protests near my hotel but nevertheless the police deployed tear gas in the entire area every night starting at around 8 PM, like it was bug spray or something.

        This is what Canada will look like when the socialists are done with us.

      3. I would never legislate fantasy laws. CBDC yes. Fantasy laws no.

  9. For the last two days, power has been off for over 100,000 people in Atlantic Canada and some are not forecast to be reconnected until after Xmas. Those who bought the “heat pump is all you need” or “electric cars are great” myths are now suffering serious remorse. Timing of the storm a little inconvenient for the Liberals.

  10. It’s a crying shame that the Ministry of Truth is incapable of nuance and practicality. Why is it always one size fits all, no matter how ludicrous? I happen to think that there are some environments and circumstances where an EV is a reasonable solution but not for someone in rural America or on the northern great plains. If and when they are successful for congested urban commutes, they will spill out into other environments, without coercion or deceptive marketing. They also assume that we don’t know chumps who got suckered and don’t drive their EV in winter or when they require 4WD.

  11. As Reagan said, “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

    I’m sure if Ronny knew about Trudeau, Guilbeault and Freeland and their ardent foolishness, he’d drop the “not” in the first phrase.

  12. My challenge still stands, I will not consider any form of luxury golf cart until it can be shown to repeat a task I completed a few years ago in my diesel SUV:

    Drive from Southern Ontario to Northern Alberta, pick up a big trailer weighing at least 3,000lb, and tow it back. In a week.

    I’m not holding my breath.

    1. Yep….Im right there with ya.
      That would take someone at least Month to complete…using an EV of any kind. And a trailer with a GVWR of 3000 is pretty light in my estimation…

      Remember, God forbid you scratch your battery’s protective cover… your dealer will tell you in a heartbeat, “YOU need a New Battery”. (The BC Ionic5 Story: $61,295 for New battery install).

      Pretty sure that most jurisdictions who bought into the EV Fire & Garbage Truck stupidity are wishing they hadn’t.

      Can’t wait to see how Air Canada will fare with their 200km Electric puddle jumpers.

      Bottom line: Canada is a country of Fking IMBECILES in both Govt and Coroporate.

      1. Most of the EV fire trucks have a big diesel engine hidden in the middle of them so that they can continue to operate after they run down the batteries in a few minutes…

    1. The best thing we can do is refuse to buy any EV, at ANY price. Watch them pile up on dealers lots. Watch the dealers scream bloody murder to the automakers. Then watch the automakers scream bloody murder to the politicians. Then watch the pols revolt against the party whips to save their political skins.

      We can bring the whole mess to a grinding halt, just by voting with our dollars.

      1. The automakers will scale back production and ask for further subsidies, which they will receive. Justin and Hans do not care if you can’t get to work because you can’t afford an EV, most of our masters welcome a day when they are the only things allowed on the roads. The populace on some sort of sustenance workfare with no property ownership to them is these peoples wet dream. You will live in your pod, eat bugs, and travel nowhere and be happy is their motto, after all.

        So, what are we REALLY prepared to do about it?

          1. Honestly? Don’t know. We no longer live in anything like a democracy and we’re not free in any way, shape, or form, that’s become cuttingly clear. We effectively have no rights. I support parties and causes for Western independence, for all the good that’s doing. What beyond that can I do? Nobody is going to listen or follow me, and there’s no leader to stand behind here, Smith is merely an annoyance to the feds, many of the others advocating for independence are portrayed as unhinged so their movement never gets off the ground. And I’m not sure a new country wouldn’t also be subverted by WEF types anyway.

            As for the cars themselves, I won’t be buying an electric car. New cars are artificially inflated to support the failed EV’s, not buying one of those, either. And 10 year old models are selling for more than the original sticker- for a car old enough to effectively not be elegible for finance. It’s almost like everyone want us pinned down.

  15. The problems with EVs numbers in the dozens : price, reliability, range anxiety, battery replacement, low resale expectations, fire/explosion hazard, inadequate amount of electricity production, inadequate grid capacity, likelihood of no transportation during blackouts, expensive home upgrades for charging, nearly impossible charging for apartment or condo dwellers, high insurance costs…

    To me though it’s also a matter of government control of the economy, private business and personal choice for purely ideological agendas and political control. Imagine similar mandates for other products. How much control will people allow governments to have over your life choices via mandates and quotas? Vehicles, homes, vacations, jobs, energy consumption, medical choices, food purchases…where’s the line when it goes from authoritarian to totalitarian?

    Your bank has approved a home building loan and you have bought an empty lot. You meet with a house builder to build a single family detached home. They tell you that federally mandated quotas for that type of home has been exceeded for the year and every year the quotas for single family homes will dramatically decrease. Not only are you arbitrarily denied a home by the government edicts but the value of existing traditional homes skyrockets creating havoc in the real estate market and cost of living.

    People should be suspicious and alarmed that politicians, our employees not bosses, feel so entitled to unilaterally impose mandates on its citizens.

    1. If a professional engineer stamped such an ill-thought out system design I think they’d be getting disciplined by their association for public endangerment. That the Fed Gov’t can get away with it, at will, is sad and abusive.

      1. It’s crazy from an engineering perspective but even more dangerous from a citizen’s rights perspective. Canadians are in an abusive relationship with its government and, like any such relationship, the amount of abuse is accelerating. Unfortunately, Toronto, Quebec and the East Coast voters are keeping the rest of Canada trapped in this toxic situation.

        1. Citizens’ rights don’t exist if there’s no reasonable accessible legal remedy for rights abuses to individuals. Given what the Cdn courts failed to do during the C19 lockdown/mandates and are actively allowing to happen to peaceful protesters afterwards, I’d say that’s the sad case here.

          1. Yep. Not only was there not a pushback against vaccine mandates but the majority of the Canadian population cheered on the obliteration of medical ethics and bodily autonomy. Of course that emboldened the control freaks in the political and chattering class. It was a compliance and conformity test which most Canadians failed by being naive and, in some cases, useful idiots of authoritarianism.

      2. Trudeau dropped out of engineering school, likely because he was innumerate. On top of that, if you want to be a professional engineer, you have to prescribe to a code of ethics, something that is kryptonite a Liberal.

      3. As an engineering graduate, I concur. But here’s my question: why aren’t the professional societies screaming bloody murder at the “science” lies being told by the Gullible and his crew of malicious miscreants? Because their status is at risk. If they contradict the government, then their monopoly on engineering designations will be withdrawn and they will be at the mercy of the communist regime. So from self interest, they are being very, very quiet. In short, the professional status is becoming a joke if it won’t stand for truth at a minimum. Not my truth or your truth, but objective, reality based truth.

        I remember my oath – do they remember theirs? I made a promise before God that I take very seriously.

        1. The professional orgs are largely influenced by the consulting firm members. The consulting firm members are mostly interested in making money off the government via the climate scam

          1. That and the “long march through the institutions”. Many of these associations and societies have become dominated by activist types with agendas not necessarily in line with the membership. And the productive membership is too busy in their daily affairs to fight the insidious infection in the society that allegedly represents them. As a professional engineer I have witnessed the hints of political correctness and creeping DEI in my professional association.

    2. where’s the line? There isn’t one, LC. If we accept the argument governments tell us what to do for our health and safety, we become slaves, serfs or worse. If we don’t, we have a chance of retaining our liberty.

  16. BTW…last night a 3-Alarm fire broke out in Detroit. It just so happened it started in the General Motors Zero plant. Speculation is that the fire started in a large stock of EV batteries. GM builds their high end EV vehicles at the facility. But, they won’t be doing that for a while.

      1. Yeah, that was my first thought as well. A little arson to stop the leaking. They did have to shut down the operation indefinitely. I suspect they will take their time getting it back up and running. I’m not even sure the fire is out yet. It was burning hot and not controlled as of about midnight last night.

  18. Can’t park’em in a garage because of fire risk. Many cars only have access to street parking so how will that work for overnight charging? How will charging chord crossed sidewalks be cleared after huge snow dumps or dealing with the fall hazard that all those buried cords will be? What about the effect of the 50% heavier vehicles due to the battery mass on safely navigating icy hills or making sudden stops? These Gov’t Hans Grubers proclaiming EV’s “Safe and Effective” are the SAME people still not getting clean water to remote native reserves 8 years after making that promise. Sounds like a ministry of liars to me. A disaster in the making.

    1. There are thieves making a living by stealing charging cables in Toronto. So the street option, without armed security is a non-starter.

  19. No Gilbert, we don’t have to buy them and we don’t have to make them. We will happy to shut down your personal production of CO2 and get some relief from your stupid communist propaganda.

  20. Jesus speaking about the last days, Matthew 24: 21,22. BSB

    21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again. 22 If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

    Our governments mandate the coming tribulation….

  21. During the 2022 “Polar Vortex” that hit southern Ontario just prior to Christmas–my brother was stuck in a building along the 401 with a family whose EV wasn’t able to charge outside because of the cold (I believe there were lows of -15ºC to -20ºC for a period). Due to the cold temperature, anybody who tried to charge their vehicle outside wasn’t able to charge their vehicle at all because the vehicle used the electricity to keep the battery and other essential electronics from freezing. It was only when they pushed the vehicle inside the building, where the highway snow removal vehicles are stored, that the EV was able to charge its battery. However, since they had to use a normal 120V AC/DC power outlet it took 8 hours to charge it up to 75%. Everybody who was stuck in that building saw that an EV was great for around the city (and hopefully you have a warm garage where it can be plugged)–but a bad choice for winter driving in Canada. Having lived in Yellowknife, Edmonton, and travelled through the Prairie provinces during the winter–the EV would be totally useless because the use of the heater and lights would use up the battery faster and the cold temperatures would shorten the battery life even more.

  22. With no actual EVIDENCE whatsoever … our governments (mine is California) insist that everyone driving EV’s will “save lives” …

    Health Benefits
    Moving towards ZEVs will have significant beneficial health impacts from the reduction of harmful air pollution. Almost half of Canadians live near high-traffic roads, and about half of schools and long-term care facilities are also located near high-traffic roads. Children, the elderly, individuals with underlying health conditions, and people living in high-exposure areas are all impacted by the adverse effects of air pollution, which can include childhood asthma and leukemia, as well as greater risk of lung cancer in adults.
    Health Canada analysis shows that the air pollution from on-road vehicles in Canada contribute to an estimated 1,200 premature deaths and millions of cases of non-fatal health outcomes annually, with a total estimated economic cost of $9.5 billion each year. The emissions from light-duty vehicles contribute a little over a third of those health impacts. By 2050, the regulations are projected to reduce various air pollutant emissions from light-duty vehicles, including reducing fine particular matter (PM2.5) by 36 percent, nitrogen oxide (NOx) by 50 percent, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 61 percent, and carbon monoxide (CO) by 68 percent.    .

    Sadly … fewer and fewer of our citizens can actually read … with any sort of meaningful comprehension.

    Just curious … did any of their estimates include the people who will freeze to death in their EV’s when they stop operating in the middle of nowhere? Or the dead EV drivers who are incinerated in their rolling crematorium.

    1. And of course no mention is made of the higher level of injuries and mortalities that result from automobile accidents involving these beastly heavy cars.

  23. Now over at CTV there is an article ‘Beware costs and logistics of at-home chargers before buying an electric car’
    https://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/beware-costs-and-logistics-of-at-home-chargers-before-buying-an-electric-car-1.6694969
    Interesting numbers here. So there is the guy in the article who spends $200 a month additional electricity – drives an hour a day so about 50km or about 1250 km per month or 15000 km a year – reasonable number. An ICE averaging 10 l / 1000km would use 125 litres or at today’s prices ($1.50/l includes carbon taxes) = $187.50. As these numbers become known to the voting public, I predict a 60% reduction in liberals by 2026 with cost savings to follow.

  24. Worried about lungs now, yet not worried about education turning out soulless husks.
    I made the mistake of listening to the moron.
    No fate can be bad enough for that unaccountable lying SOB.
    Phony as hell.
    But people must be buying into it.
    And they will spend trillions just to be “right”
    Look at the battery plants for example.
    They should have been booted to the curb long ago.

  26. Got into a huge comment debate on the Pipeline Online Facebook page. After a while I had this realization, copied here: I noticed something among the commenters here who are strong advocates of EVs. None of you are poor. None of you are likely working poor, either. You’re all on the affluent side of the economic spectrum. You can and do afford to buy new vehicles. You have been able to afford the premium it cost to buy your EVs, which speaks for itself.
    There is a huge portion of our population who are not in that spectrum. People who have never bought a new vehicle in their life, and likely will never have that ability. People who are lucky if they can buy something that’s 10 years old. And that also includes young people in their teens and 20s, who are just getting into the financial game.
    What is the secondary market for EVs? Not three years old, but 7 years old? 10 years old? 20 years old? You see, lithium battery formulations typically have a 1000 charge cycle lifespan. If you discharge it and charge it every day, that’s about three years, which is precisely why you will hardly find anyone still using an iPhone X or even an iPhone 6s. The battery is simply done. Same applies for laptops, and power tools. Once you reach the magic number, whatever that number is, its utility is dramatically diminished. EVs so far seem to hit that number closer to 7 years, as they are not charged as frequently as your phone.
    (and none of this counts charge cycles to “back up the grid,” as some proponents suggest)
    When it comes to EVs, this can be solved by replacing the battery pack. But that cost is enormous, in the tens of thousands of dollars. And when your budget for a used vehicle is $2500 (prior to the recent inflation) or maybe $5000 now – what do you do? What will be available on the market for you? A bunch of now essentially worthless, 7+ year old EVs that would work just fine, if only you spent more on the battery than the car is worth. $23000 to replace a battery might as well be a million. It’s totally unobtainable.
    I’ve spent most of my life just barely scraping by on a reporter’s pathetic salary. I drive vehicles that are 10+ years old. My kids’ vehicles are 19 and 22 years old. My parents vehicles are 20 years old. What will those people buy, when all the ICE vehicles are gone?
    It’s easy to preach when you have money. Not so easy when you’re perpetually broke.

    1. Exactly right, Brian. Many of us have spent our entire lives driving serviceable older vehicles. I bought a 1964 Chevy stepside one time for $450. Another time I bought a 1965 Ford Econoline van for about the same price and spent about $100 putting 4 retreads on it.

      Unfortunately, government continues to issue new edicts and overregulation that cause the price of new vehicles to increase, thereby putting those vehicles further out of reach. The latest nonsense from Washington is mandatory interlocks on every vehicle manufactured after 2025. That likely adds $4 or $5,000 to the price of a new vehicle.

    2. Well Brian … you’ve mostly answered your own question. The government doesn’t believe poor people need to drive. They will all take the electric bus. Or ride their bikes (with snow tires). The proles will own nothing and be happy! Because capitalism’s dog eat dog world is exhausting … so now … all those exhausted artists can stay home and do their art. Just imagine the number of new Rap Artists we will all discover!

      And BTW … all my power tools use rechargeable DETACHABLE batteries. When the battery no longer takes a decent charge … you just replace it. You don’t have to replace the whole tool. And as far as range anxiety goes … every contractor I know always carries two batteries … one on the tool and one in the charger … because they’re a little pricey … but affordable … and a dead battery will never force you to stop working. It’s almost as if Apple has never heard of this concept … hmmmm?

  27. Remember that the issue is not the issue. Many comments here about the enforcement of EVs use logic, reason and facts as to why it can”t work. But the likes of Trudeau and his thugs in government aren’t interested in those reasons. For them, the pursuit and entrenchment of power is the issue. Everything else is irrelevant, including the facts about EVs.

    1. Quite so David. I hd long struggled with the false idea that the advocates of these destructive olicies simply were not aware of the impossibility of their prognostications. I have finally had to assume, absent any reasonable excuses for idiocy, that these advocates are. or are in the service of, evil people who want to reduce the world’s population to a state of totalitarian control, so that they may prosper.

      I call these evil people a Post-National Aristocracy, or World Government Cleptocrats or Bureaucrats. Or, in the words of Plato, who first laid out the Communist plan in his “Republic”, the Guardians. The “Philosophers” who understand beauty and wealth and deny them to the masses because they would only abuse that knowledge.

  29. There won’t be math, but if you convert all 24,771,181 registered light duty vehicles to electric vehicles with a 60kWh battery, you’d consume 97.7% of all produced power per day to charge them all to full… good thing we don’t need the power for anything else

    1. But you haven’t heard the Good News, JD. I heard it explained once, maybe a year ago, by a green consultant politico, that the EV batteries could be used to provide backup to the electrical power grid to avoid black outs.

  33. When Vladimir Putin announces 100% EV usage in Siberia I’ll believe its a practical solution for Canada.

  34. They want you stuck in your rented apartment unable to drive anywhere because you don’t own a vehicle and taking public transport. EVs are just the way they do it while pretending they’re not robbing you.

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