Die Bedenken wachsen um das kanadische Fertigungssektor für Elektrofahrzeuge
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/autos/article/concerns-grow-over-canadas-electric-vehicle-manufacturing-sector/
Die Bedenken wachsen um das kanadische Fertigungssektor für Elektrofahrzeuge
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/autos/article/concerns-grow-over-canadas-electric-vehicle-manufacturing-sector/
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At some point the government needs to stop trying to pick winners and losers because it’s just not very good at it.
Market conditions are tough enough, because of hesitation and rollbacks of deadlines to switch to electric vehicles (eg. Trump will refuse to impose a deadline for and end ICE-vehicles sales, unlike California and many other jurisdictions).
But now Trump Tariffs will definitely be the death of the Canadian Auto Industry.
Trump has said he wants all Canadian car production to shift to the US, taking the jobs with them… and so far, he is winning. Like stealing candy from a baby, Trump is taking Canada’s automotive sector away from it, for itself.
What’s Canada going to do about it? Just sit there and take it? Saving jobs will require forceful government intervention… on the level of nationalizing private companies in the strategic interest of the country. Stop simply taking the punches; do something about it.
If needed, I would sign a long-term deal with even the Chinese to build BYD, Great Wall, GAC and Geely cars in Canada, since it looks like other car companies are going to close their factories anyways.
*“In Canada a lot of the rebates have been taken back, they were reduced in Quebec, in British Columbia, Ontario hasn’t had a consumer rebate since 2018. All of that is part of the reason EV sales are slowing from their peak highs” says Raz.*
Actually sales keep increasing:
In 2024, market penetration of zero-emission vehicles reached 14.6 per cent overall — up from 11 per cent for 2023. In terms of units, there were 202,103 new battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and 68,882 new plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles (PHEVs) registered in Canada in 2024. That’s out of a total of 1,852,738 new vehicles registered in 2024.
[https://electricautonomy.ca/data-trackers/ev-sales-data/2025-03-13/statscan-q4-2024-ev-sales-canada/](https://electricautonomy.ca/data-trackers/ev-sales-data/2025-03-13/statscan-q4-2024-ev-sales-canada/)
I’m concerned about the manufacturing sector generally. Was watching How It’s Made last night, it’s a pretty awesome part of the economy that produces tangible goods. Giving that away was a mistake in hindsight. Definitely supportive of the initiatives to revitalize production onshore.
Need more of that and less administrators/managers/email people
It’s dead Jim.
The EV thing was stupid. Every developed country in the world is fighting to develop an EV export industry and not everybody can win. We should be focusing on finding specialized industrial niches instead of trying to compete head on with mega economies with limitless funding.
I think the best solution is that we should focus on subsidizing R&D into new pharmaceuticals, metamaterials and use the accrued intellectual property rights as a way to encourage companies to then produce the new goods in Canada. Kind of like Denmark and Ozympic.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20250220-hotdogs-and-motorways-the-ripples-created-by-denmarks-ozempic-and-wegovy-boom
Evidently the concern is that it is a blackhole for taxpayer’s money and no matter how they try to force or market these, people don’t want them. Canadian government put our money on the wrong horse….again.
I live in the cold part of Canada at this moment EVs are not as reliable as I would like. But I did choose to buy a hybrid. And hoping when this one is done a practical EV can be had.
I guess we didn’t subsidize it enough.