Kanadas Lieferkette für Elektrofahrzeuge schwindet. Werden die Träume, das Land zu einem Kraftwerk für Elektrofahrzeuge zu machen, überleben?
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicles/dreams-making-canada-ev-powerhouse-survive
Kanadas Lieferkette für Elektrofahrzeuge schwindet. Werden die Träume, das Land zu einem Kraftwerk für Elektrofahrzeuge zu machen, überleben?
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicles/dreams-making-canada-ev-powerhouse-survive
7 Kommentare
The danger in giving the government too much power over the economy is that it will prioritize pet projects that markets don’t actually want over industries that actually have the demand. And when the bad business decisions fail, taxpayers have to foot the bill.
not unless we can attract a REAL EV manufacturer here like BYD or Polestar or Rivian or even Hyundai. The American autocompanies aren’t serious EV makers. The Japanese companies aren’t either.
Of course not. That was always a pipe dream. See also: Dalton McGuinty’s „Green Energy Act“ and crooked smart meters in the early-mid 2000s that were supposed to make Ontario a powerhouse of wind and solar manufacturing. How’s that working out, lmfao?
We never learn. Let’s just get the government out of the way and stop trying to pick winners and losers. We have a market that will do that far better than any politician or burueacrat ever could.
Like were they even there to begin with? We are a raw resource and service export country. Even with bailouts and cash for battery plants, companies won’t stay and are not competitive with Chinese manufacturers. For people who live in city’s where it makes sense to daily an EV, the car makers are selling cars like a phone, to not be fixed but subscribed to, crushing the used value and the sticker price is only getting higher. I think there is a small market for simple ev conversions but i don’t think Canada as an ev power house was ever a serious dream as long as we chase the oil money.
I unfortunately bought into it and now realize that Canada is the WORST country for mass early adoption of full EVs. It only works for a very specific segment of the population. And you still end up with a car that is impractical to take on a road trip within the country.
And even worse, any gains in carbon footprint energy efficient of cars, is way more negated by the massive increase in day to day services delivered by gas/hybrid vehicles. Uber, food delivery, grocery delivery, Amazon, etc.
We all suck. Seriously.
None of the American legacy automakers or Japanese automakers are good at making EVs so that goes out the door. In the US, it’s mainly Tesla that can service the mid tier pricing segment but Tesla already has factories in the US, so they won’t bother setting up a new one in Canada.
This leaves Korean, Chinese, and European auto makers, who can make decent EVs. But they won’t invest in any Canadian factory if the cars we make get tariffed by the US. At the end of the day, any gas cars or EVs we make, is only financially viable if it can be exported to the US, tariff free. Sadly, our market alone is too small, just like Australia’s market was too small, and that’s why Australia no longer has an auto manufacturing industry.
We ought to pretty much give up on the “EV dream” and just treat them like any other car. They are only affordable for people who are well enough off and all of the rebates go right into the dealership’s pocket anyway.
Instead, we should be investing in public transit in all of the major city centers, and especially the surrounding suburban areas that people usually commute by car from. If you can save hundreds of dollars a month by transiting into the city in the same amount of time that it takes to drive, then people will stop buying so many cars.
EV’s are not good at all for transportation between our city centers because they are so spread out. For that we should be investing in diesel, hybrid, electric buses. And doing whatever we can to allow the trucking industry to switch to diesel electric as seen in Edison motors.