The burden won’t be limited to the cost of unloading the current stock of EVs to consumers who don’t want them. There will be additional losses for dealers and automakers who built production and sales infrastructure to comply with mandates that are now disappearing across the board. Maybe it’s just that Canadian politicians pride themselves in policy failure. Otherwise, why are there so many failures, so often?
“There is no pathway to 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales in the next 10 years with the support [currently] being provided to Canadians,” Kingston said. “Dictating what vehicles Canadians can and can’t buy, without providing them with the supports necessary to switch to electric is a made-in-Canada policy failure.”
A centrally-planned economy is always fraught with disaster. (Think California).
That is why sane people do not support government direction of every aspect of their lives.
I remember the hydroponic greenhouses in Newfoundland back in the early 1980’s in which the federal government invested and how the pipeline ended up costing at least twice its estimate. At the provincial level, the most egregious example is the “big O” in Montreal which Quebec and the city of Montreal invested in for the 1972 Olympics. Finally was paid off after 20 years and for double the amount.
The jobs of civil servants are “make work” programs for people too stupid to get a job in the private sector.
It’s shocking that Liberal voters aren’t buying electric cars.
They’re stupid enough to vote for Turdeau, they’re thus qualified to buy electric cars.
Ooh. Good one.
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I wonder if electric Turdeau has scrapped his Mercedes?
“The industry is moving to electrification. That’s a foregone conclusion” – says the manufacturers president and CEO.
Well okay then, that’s great for the car manufacturers in canada, but what are we going to drive?
Future canadians may be able to afford VW Beetles imported from Brazil, but they is cold in winter!
Phil, if you’re right,I hope to god they put a decent heater in them! Those 1960’s era “bugs” were great little cars but you had to drive with a windshield scraper in one hand while your feet froze. Brazilian car makers should be expert at auto heaters, (he said with extreme sarcasm).
EV’s were and are an insane idea in Canada and any other cold country.
I wonder who has the EV franchise for Siberia.
An interesting thing about the Brazilian fleet of light vehicles is the Flex-Fuel engine, which allows the car to run using 100% gas all the way down to 85% ethanol/15% gas. My quick research shows that 85% of light vehicles are flex-fuel in that country.
I mistakenly filled the carbureted moto with E85 in France. Had to drain half the tank and refill with 95reg to get it to run.
Boy, does that bring back a memory. I went to college in northwest Iowa. Very cold, windy, snowy winters. A good friend drove us around in her parents ‘ second car, a VW bug. Yes, she drove with a scraper in one hand, steering with the other (trying to avoid black ice). We passengers scraped the other side of the windshield and the side windows. I still remember how frickin’ cold we were in that car. But it was better than walking! / Writing from another part of the Midwest, in a cold snap, currently zero F.
I had a friend with a VW in the late 1960s. It had no discernible heat. My brother had a VW in about 1972. It had a gas heater in it and was fine in the winter. Even the 1966 pickup I used to drive only kept the bottom half of the windshield defrosted at 30 below while today, in an up to date one, all the windows are completely defrosted. We’ve come a long way baby.
…why are there so many failures, so often?
Inevitable when ideology meets reality.
The high number of policy failures is directly correlated with the high number of years the sheeples have voted to be ruled by Liberals.
I have no sympathy for the manufacturers.
They did not fight against the stupidity of EVs, not one bit.
As a former Blue Oval guy, other than V8 Mustangs, I hope it goes under, along with GM, Dodge,mand all the other Morontariowe auto factories. They’ve earned it and so has the UAW and Morontariowe.
Brian Kingston was more government interference in the automobile market, telling the companies what kinds of cars to make and sell, and only allowing those companies that agree with the government to sell cars.
One might conclude that he’s a facist
Drove by a solar farm today. Acres upon acres of lined panels as far as the eye could see that used to be farm land. AND, each and every one of them completely covered in 12″ of snow. The local temperature is scheduled to get above freezing in about 8 days. So, exactly how do you remedy that problem? An entire week+ with no power being generated doesn’t seem very efficient.
Apparently, the experts state that the panels will still generate electricity through snow accumulation. I don’t think any of these experts ever built a snow fort as a kid, because when it’s thick enough, light doesn’t get through. One expert recommended using heaters and and a powered snow-melting system. I’m kind of dense, but doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose of why those solar panels are so important in the first place? Also, a third expert chimed in and said to be sure not to remove the snow from the panels by hand. That would void the warranty.
the market always . always , always wins.
Didn’t the Toyota CEO said they were not going to 100% electric? His reasons were based not only on market analysis, but also considered that there is no way in hell the infrastructure can support it. Not a good idea to bet against Toyota. Plus your local Somali warlord likes his Toyota technicals to run on gas.
Man people are stupid, you cannot build anything related to electricity without massive inputs of coal, oil and gas, an impossibility. That needs to hammered into people’s tiny minds, good grief Canadians are stupid. There will never be a 100% emissions free vehicle.
CO2 is not a pollutant or a climate driver. Without adequate CO2 in the atmosphere, WE ALL DIE, GOT THAT, ALL OF US.
Wouldn’t it be something if all the battery plants in Ontario went bust after tens of billions of tax payers dollars where gobbled up ….. in the name of climate change.
Is Pierre going to have the guts to draw back the curtain, and let Ford burn?
I notice on one of his commercials when he talks about housing the picture behind him is all apartments, so I have to wonder.
I don’t think Canadians want the truth or are ready for it………….yet.
But it’s coming regardless.
I wonder if the Ontario government knows of this department….IESO
this mornings offerings
https://www.ieso.ca/power-data/this-hours-data
If ever there was an electric car in my driveway it would be because someone else parked it there and I didn’t see him do it.
hahahahaha……GOOD ONE………….snowing and 33kph winds here in Medicine Hat at the moment………EV’S ARE A WASTE OF $$$$$$………