We Don’t Need No Bailed Out Sparky Cars

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It’s more than a car – it’s your preview of a fat, ugly bailout.

At Canada’s International AutoShow, we unveiled Project Arrow: Borealis. This is a fully electric concept vehicle built entirely in Canada, with contributions from over 55 Canadian companies and support from Feddev Ontario.

This vehicle is more than a car — it’s a statement: Canada is leading the EV revolution, pushing the boundaries of innovation, and showcasing our homegrown capabilities on the global stage.

65 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Bailed Out Sparky Cars”

  1. Yup, just like the rest of the world, EV’s leading everyone to oblivion.
    Kill the project now or it will hoover your wallet dry (and that before even one is actually mass produced or sold).
    Note to Elon, convert over to hybrids and a US$ 20K target price for a light truck (that looks like a Toyota Hilux) with optional diesel engine or your Tesla will also soon be toast (well, more so than currently). No geegaws, no power or electric anything – basic basic reliable basic transportation is what will win the day. Rant/off. Leverage the elimination of regulatory BS and build like it was 1972.

    1. The difference is that in places like the US and Japan, the automakers who made huge investments in changing their production priorities to EVs have recognized their mistake and taking huge writeoffs to course correct.

      Figures that would be time that the elbows up people would first decide to jump into the game.

    2. This is money laundering 101. Use taxpayer money to subsidize the grifters. Grifters make kickbacks and donations to the Lieberals.

  2. “…and support from Feddev Ontario.”

    Feddev. Jeez, I wonder what that is, eh?

    Funny, when I say it, I hear the sound of taxpayer billions being pissed away on yet another useless project designed for one purpose: to feed bobblehead’s and blubber douggie’s pet parasites.

    Man oh man! Wait till Pee-Pee hears about this!

  3. “Canada is leading the EV revolution, pushing the boundaries of innovation, ”

    That’s where I stopped reading, right there.

    You can’t use ‘Canada’ and ‘innovation’ in the same sentence.

      1. Reminds me of other Liberal idiocies like Canada’s “soft power”….or “Canada is united by its two languages”….you just can’t believe this nonsense.

    2. Yup. Reminds me of past Canadian government forays into auto production, a massive write-off of taxpayer money.

      And I thought the Tesla pick-up was ugly on wheels.

      But I must say, they make it sound good (except for the fully autonomous driving system. Gotta wonder how it would perform in snow and ice).

      “Borealis, a skeleton-like EV that was designed to showcase what the Canadian automotive supply chain can provide for the next decade’s cars. Again, we’re talking about a 3D-printed chassis, but this time it’s a metal-alloy construction, and the powertrain is also apparently 3D-printed. A Level 5 fully autonomous driving system is in the cards, as well as a communications system that integrates with whatever smart features the cities of the future will offer. As for the driving range, the concept’s creators envision around 932 miles (1,500 km).”

      https://insideevs.com/news/787202/canada-project-arrow-vector-borealis-2026/

  4. Well, at least we can rest assured that there will be no under-the-table stuff going on with Solomon’s slippery hands on the till … woops, sorry, I mean tiller.

      1. The helm of the ship, the connection to the rudder (denotation), ergo, the control of the entity (connotation).

  5. How much is it going to cost me? Standard question for anything involving government.
    I would be agreeable for the government limiting our generosity to a contest offering a $10 million prize and a cheap rental of facilities abandoned by auto companies for the best EV/hybrid prototype. Make it a two seater urban street legal grocery hauler capable of maintaining 60Km/hr for two hours in winter for under $20K and I may be interested. That would bring out true innovators and not just rentseekers. Otherwise any largess can come out of the politician’s retirement fund.
    A pox on all their houses.

  7. I will celebrate my 74th birthday in March and I am so tired of “less than special” government employees deciding what will sell in the marketplace AND subsidizing the same. I remember when hydroponic greenhouses were going to revolutionize the economy in Newfoundland/Labrador in the late 70’s – they went bust within a few years and sucked tremendous amounts of money out of the government; then about 10 years ago, the federal government employees decided that those curly fluorescent lightbulbs were the way to go and mandated that all lights be outfitted with them and then it was discovered that the discarded bulbs contaminate the landfills with mercury or some such thing. There was no government fanfare for LED bulbs which have a half life of “forever” or 22,000 hours, used 6 hours per day. I use them everywhere in my house and Love, love, love the quality of light they emit. Since I do not have them on for 6 hours a day, chances are I will NEVER have to replace them.

      1. Agreed. I write the date of install on the base in black Sharpie. In our main bathroom, best we’ve had is ~two years. Those lights are on a few hours/week at most.

        And, I don’t need any GD disclaimer noting that turning them on/off often shortens the life. If they’re not going to last 22,000 hours in actual use, then stop making the claim. Nobody turns on a light & runs it for 22,000 hours straight. Not even a dim-bulb [spit] Prog.

  8. This project is reminiscent of the governments wind/solar transition scheme. Force taxpayers to fund the replacement of reliable, affordable conventional baseload power with unreliable intermittent power sources. Then watch electricity bills skyrocket.

    The government’s new scheme is the same. Force taxpayers to fund a more expensive product, electric vehicles, to replace a product that is more reliable and affordable, conventional ice vehicles. The result will be the same – the price to buy and operate a vehicle will skyrocket, assuming they actually produce a working electric car at all.

    Governments forcing taxpayers to fund and buy products they don’t want or need should stop. It wastes billions of tax dollars that should instead be spent on higher priorities or not spent and start lowering the tax burden.

  9. The Plan is to move all ICE industry to the US and have Canada become the EV superpower in N. America. When the Democrats return to the White House, which will be in ‘29, Canadian EV’s will get access to the US. Everything we see is prep for when Trump leaves.

    1. Sorry to burst your bubble but the Democrats are not going to be ‘ riding in over the hill blowing a bugle’ to save Canada in November 2028. I think you and many other Canadians are in for a big surprise. Canadians have never understood the popularity of Trump and the Republicans and still don’t. JD Vance is quite popular to be the next Republican presidential candidate. As long as the Democrats keep pushing their woke agenda they will continue to lose. Plus, their far left base cheering the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk shocked many more moderate Democrats, many of whom left the party in disgust. Some switched to Republican but most will refuse to vote.

      1. Kanadians are also very delusional about the Demoncraps. Many Demoncrap administrations have screwed over Kanada while being fawned over by those same Kanadians. It probably has to do with 60% vote Lieberal/Dipper/Watermelon. Of the 40% that go CPC/PPC, half are CINO’s.

    3. Run of the mill Americans are delighted with Trump. How can we not celebrate a president who has removed 600,000 people from the Federal government workforce?

  10. So Feddev isn’t a former Russian goaltender.
    We are in dire need more gov’t agencies.
    Read over Canadian gov’t employees vs. private sector employee numbers the other day. If you find yourself trying to make sense of it all …those numbers will tell you all you need to know.

  11. The Bricklin Two.?
    How long will this subsidy last,when Alberta and Saskatchewan pull the plug?
    Although the all electric vehicle does have some utility,as mobile electric chairs.
    And the victims are self selecting.
    This could be better than MAID.
    Is there a Canadian Manufacturer of Golf Carts?

    1. The Bricklin Two.? – Thanks for that I almost forgot.
      The day a stranger clip clopped into St.John N.B. with his horse and wagon promising to make it rain.

  12. You know if you are going to bilk the taxpayers out of millions you should at least make the vehicle look sexy or cool. That vehicle screams “boondoggle!”

  13. Project Arrow. Well, that’s appropriate.

    Just like the original, it will be a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that will be obsolete and cancelled long before the first retail-ready model rolls off the line.

    1. Project Arrow: sure sounds a lot like another Canadian success story . . .

      Billion $ Boondoggles R’Us

  14. Leadership in anything, but especially technology, ain’t coming from Canada.
    Bedwetting maybe.

    The Chicoms, Koreans and the Japanese are wayyy ahead of us on everything tech.

    https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/hybrid-electric-vehicles/the-worlds-first-ev-with-a-sodium-ion-battery-has-landed-and-it-beats-traditional-lithium-batteries-in-one-key-way

    We don’t make stuff here because we embraced Globalism and reverted to hewers of wood and haulers of water.

    Even the Americans are discovering how much their National Defence relies on foreign tech and manufacturing. More than just an Achilles Heel.

  15. Meanwhile, Edison Motors in BC, the only truck manufacturer in Canada, with a unique and potentially very useful hybrid technology, has been in constant struggle with all levels of government for years, for the most idiotic (“traction control”) and trivial (zoning) of reasons. But that’s just a bunch of white guys wearing work boots, so they’re beneath contempt for our government.

  16. Do they make EVs look ugly on purpose? When I first saw the Chevy Volt up close I thought why would they build a modern car that looks like a Chevy Citation? Then I realized at the time GM didn’t want EVs to succeed. I now speculate that the people who design internal combustion engines also design EVs … to look ugly … for a reason.

      1. Wow. Don’t they ask Mustang owners for their take? They took the guy who designed the Pontiac Aztek and the girl who designed the PT Cruiser and sat them down in front of AMC Pacer.

        1. “Don’t they ask Mustang owners for their take?”

          No. Because people are stupid and must be controlled. You will want what the marketing people tell you to want.

          Currently you will want a hideous EV called a Mach-E because shut up and pay the money, peasant. And that’s why Ford took a multi-billion dollar write down due to Mustang owners not only laughing at the Mach-E, but also laughing at the price of a new Mustang and keeping the old one.

          Base-price Mustang V-8 is ~$50k in US dollars, and they are nice but they are not flying off the lots. Because $50 grand is a lot of cake for a base-price car. Add all the spice and you’re hitting $80-$100K. For a FORD. That’s crazy.

  17. If Evan Solomon isn’t super chummy pals with Svend Robinson I’ll eat a bug.
    (the rules don’t apply to them)

  18. “ Project Arrow: Borealis”
    That’s an anagram for Boondoggle. Which will forever be romanticized by the silly socialist denizens of CBC after its inevitably failure.

  20. Let me guess.
    The same folks that think this is the future of automotive manufacturing also want me to eat bugs live in a rented concrete box own nothing and be happy.
    Oh yeah, and they hate the fact the US has a second amendment in its constitution, but they don’t have the guts to say why.

  22. Without any searching into the background of this company, I assume firstly that the idea is to gain funding from gov’t backing, to evade taxes on this funding, to guide to #Librano insiders most of the cash available, to dangle yet another lame idea as to “what Canada is capable of building” while hoping nobody asks about those billions of trees not planted by #Libranos, or those millions of homes not built by #Libranos, or where the money actually went from the Canadian Infrastructure Bank, or why the #Libranos always invoke secrecy whenever anyone asks “where did the money go?” or why the RCMP are hiding the guns file on the Tumbler Ridge shooting? or the 15 years wait for Covid information? or anything else where it’s obvious the gov’t of Canada has cheated someone out of their dignity, their means of supporting themselves, their health, their funds, their anything at all and never giving an adults actual response to their neverending malfeasance.

    #Edison Motors seems to be building vehicles without “gov’t help” … they’d build a lot more if the federal gov’t would act like a responsible adult and stop trying to give everyone the “bunga-bunga” up their bum.

    Don’t think it’s connected? The malfeasance is sewn through them, it’s in their DNA, the greatest surprise would be if it only cost another $1 billion instead of $10 billion… Will there be a Brookfield Edition?

    I’d like a new Toyota Hilux without the bullshit actually, I think the cost will be under $20k if the gov’t of Canada didn’t need their share of #Libranos grift. Perhaps the Republic of Alberta will contact Toyota and mention how many westerners would like these? I’d like it in black, red, or that Lexus bright blue… maybe Toyota would like to build them here in the Republic of Alberta? with a real block heater, and a winter ready battery, and a guarantee of no gov’t bullshit?

    1. “I’d like a new Toyota Hilux…”

      Yes, me too. With a spicy turbo-diesel and a stick please. Perfection for a small contractor/old guy truck. You don’t have to pull a 40′ trailer with it, you just need to be able to shut the tailgate on 8′ drywall or move a motorcycle, or an engine, lumber, something you can’t put in your SUV.

      At the price point? It’s amazing.

      But all is not lost, because #Trump just ended all the #Obama-era EPA insanity, like the start-stop BS as a bunch more things. Pretty soon, if he keeps going this direction, the Big Three will be able to make a station wagon, a sports car, and a decent pickup truck that doesn’t cost more than my first house.

    2. There are rumors floating on the internet that Toyota is bringing a basic truck that just does truck things to market. Price point isn’t clear yet but it’s way less than a base Tacoma. Thankfully the EPA nonsense that Trump cancelled on Friday will assist them in making an affordable utilitarian vehicle.

  24. So is this going to be another “Le Roy”? The “Frontenac”? “Manic GT”? or the “Bricklin”?

    I know, it’s another “Ballard Fuel Cell Car” – CanGov gave them $45 million between 2000 and 2002 to build a fuel cell car that never came to fruition.

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