Canada may or may not have hit its long-awaited electric vehicle turning point

[mentalfloss]

I left 'may' in there for the extra sensitive type.

Canada may have hit its long-awaited electric vehicle turning point​

Electric car advocates are waiting to see spending details in this week's federal budget, but for the first time, pro-EV business leaders and economists are expressing new optimism that Canada's move away from internal combustion vehicles may have reached a turning point.

After years of excuses, there are signs that a conjunction of forces is pushing the country into a technological and social revolution that has been compared to going from horse to automobile and will bring affordable electric cars and trucks to roads and parking spaces across Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6403537

 

[B00Mer]

Not in Canada’s climate.. the country is to vast to have electric cars as a viable means of travel.. unless you live in the Toronto bubble

I’d love to see you drive from Toronto to Winnipeg in an a electric car.. precious

 

[Ron in Regina]

I’d love to see you drive from Toronto to Winnipeg in an a electric car.. precious

Vancouver to Calgary in 13hrs or less over several mountain ranges, then Calgary back to Vancouver the next day…because you work Friday & Monday. Picture two couples in the same car trying to get to a funeral:

“Sorry Boss, but I have to go to Calgary for a funeral on Saturday so I’ll need 4 days off this week, & 4 days off next week (& 8 hotel room nights with access to an electrical outlet outside) so I can get there and back” doesn’t fly in the real world….x 4 people….& Yes they can all fly back-and-forth and rent a vehicle for the funeral….But the economic cost as well as the environmental one are huge compared to just driving there & back in a gas powered car. Oh well.

 

[B00Mer]

Vancouver to Calgary in 13hrs or less over several mountain ranges, then Calgary back to Vancouver the next day…because you work Friday & Monday. Picture two couples in the same car trying to get to a funeral:

“Sorry Boss, but I have to go to Calgary for a funeral on Saturday so I’ll need 4 days off this week, & 4 days off next week (& 8 hotel room nights with access to an electrical outlet outside) so I can get there and back” doesn’t fly in the real world….x 4 people….& Yes they can all fly back-and-forth and rent a vehicle for the funeral….But the economic cost as well as the environmental one are huge compared to just driving there & back in a gas powered car. Oh well.

Well what kind of eco warrior are you.. fly out there and rent an electric car..

Oh never mind.. the plane ride offset and environmental gains you made by renting and electric car..

You know if Canadians had any sense of reality instead of having their nose up Trudeau’s ass, Canada might have a real chance of developing a green economy..

But it takes money, innovation and jobs to create industry and innovation .. you don’t do that in a stagnant and energy starved economy

 

[Ron in Regina]

A) four return flights from Vancouver to Calgary super cheap at let’s say 1000 bucks combined, & a car rental for the day at $100…. And rides to and from the airport on the Vancouver side, etc… let’s say $1100….

B) eight days of lost wages x 4 people, and eight days of shared hotel rooms = God only knows.

C) Vancouver to Calgary to Vancouver at about 2000km x 12L/100kms = $250? & done in a weekend without any lost wages, 1 night in a hotel in Calgary, and life goes on….so including the hotel one night, split 4 ways…it’s less than $100/head.

Math the Laurentian Elite can’t fathom as they’ve never had to. “Let them eat cake!”

 

[B00Mer]

Let me tell you something about Alberta..

It has a younger population and will lead the way in Canadian innovation..

From hyperloops

To a city of the future already in the works.. a Green City in Southern Alberta using wind and solar..

Alberta is the Province to be..

 

[harrylee]

Hey Flossy, care to share a picture of your electric car with us?

 

[mentalfloss]

Hey Flossy, care to share a picture of your electric car with us?

Nope

 

[harrylee]

Nope

That's OK....I don't have one either.

 

[DaSleeper]

Do as I say not as I do!

 

[taxslave]

Well what kind of eco warrior are you.. fly out there and rent an electric car..

Oh never mind.. the plane ride offset and environmental gains you made by renting and electric car..

You know if Canadians had any sense of reality instead of having their nose up Trudeau’s ass, Canada might have a real chance of developing a green economy..

But it takes money, innovation and jobs to create industry and innovation .. you don’t do that in a stagnant and energy starved economy

it is also hard to become a dicktator in an economic boom.

 

[B00Mer]

it is also hard to become a dicktator in an economic boom.

Singh is the dicktaster

 

[mentalfloss]

That's OK....I don't have one either.

 

[taxslave]

My wife has a PHEV ordered. If it works as advertised about 80% of her driving will be electric. Most of what she drives now is 6-10km range.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

My wife has a PHEV ordered. If it works as advertised about 80% of her driving will be electric. Most of what she drives now is 6-10km range.

Supporting the dictatorship there?

 

[petros]

At $7.32CAD a gallon? Quite possibly.

 

[taxslave]

Supporting the dictatorship there?

Looking for legal tax evasion. Our Provincial government is so free with taxpayer's money they gave gas rebates to EV owners. They ordered the government owned insurance company to pony up the coin. Commercial vehicles get $165, cars get $110. That just about covers the fuel to warm up the engine.

 

[petros]

Looking for legal tax evasion. Our Provincial government is so free with taxpayer's money they gave gas rebates to EV owners. They ordered the government owned insurance company to pony up the coin. Commercial vehicles get $165, cars get $110. That just about covers the fuel to warm up the engine.

SK Govt gave rebates from the " SGI Autofund" too but didn't lie about it being to ease gas costs.

Sask did it last year too when gas was $1.09. They did it because motor vehicle accidents dropped and its the taxpayers money not the Govt's

I got $900 last year, this year $200

 

[taxslave]

SK Govt gave rebates from the " SGI Autofund" too but didn't lie about it being to ease gas costs.

Sask did it last year too when gas was $1.09. They did it because motor vehicle accidents dropped and its the taxpayers money not the Govt's

I got $900 last year, this year $200

We got ICBC rebates due to the drop in claims as well. This one was ordered by the Dippers. Strictly political to buy votes from the gullible.

 

[petros]

It's the same rebate just relabelled