Carneys Entscheidung, Kanadas EV -Vertriebsmandat zu pausieren, musste passieren, sagen Branchenexperten
https://www.thestar.com/business/carneys-decision-to-pause-canadas-ev-sales-mandate-had-to-happen-industry-experts-say/article_297e93ea-623b-4296-8d29-c3db7953e52f.html
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Yup, it was pretty obvious.
Even the pro-EV advocates on this sub and other subs *won’t actually buy EVs* (they say they’re „waiting for Chinese EVs“ or somesuch nonsense).
Want to help the environment? Here’s how:
* Try to *delay* buying a car as much as possible. Use transit. Live in a 15 minute city (we need to reclaim that phrase from the Konvoy Klux Klan and make it a GOOD thing!)
* If you do need to buy a vehicle, get a *used*, highly efficient ICE or ICE-hybrid vehicle: Toyota Corolla, Prius, Honda Civic, Mazda3 Skyactiv
* Stay far away from SUVs and *definitely* pickup trucks. Banning Pickup trucks from Canadian streets would do wonders for our collective carbon footprint!
* Got a growing family? Try to manage with 1 vehicle instead of 2. Most families with 2 cars could do just fine with 1 vehicle; they just haven’t tried
I think the government needs to stop focusing so much on personal vehicles and get to work on public transportation. I guess with personal vehicles they could move to tell companies they need to phase out combustion engines only and move to hybrid vehicles as a progression. But the best thing they could do it get high-speed rail, light rail and other things happening.
So to summarize. We are going to continue to pollute our environment and increase global warming because our North American manufacturers are too slow to change and we dare not allow Chinese competitors to come in because it would decimate the industry that we are propping up as consumers and tax payers. Wow. Such a great time to be a Canadian!
Spend money on public transit. Not a 10% increase, not a 15% increase, spend every cent you can find on it. Regional, local, national, every level of it.
We waste billions of hours annually dealing with transportation, our #1 priority should be transport of all kinds.
Upgrading freight infrastructure included, investments in every level of every moving vehicle in the most efficient ecologically sound way possible
Mandates are the wrong approach and seldom work.
Incentivize one while disincentivizing the other. But let the market decide the pace.
Banning something that’s been in use for years is always going to be weird, especially when its replacement isn’t proven for all use cases.