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Time For Canada To Dump The Big Three & Go Electric With China
Zeit für Kanada, die Big Three & Go Electric With China – CleanTechnica zu entlassen
Time For Canada To Dump The Big Three & Go Electric With China
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> Sure, critics might decry welcoming Chinese manufacturers as controversial or politically challenging.
It is more than controversial or „politically challenging“.
Jumping out of bed with one dominating player (NA Auto Industry) into the bed of another (China) out of convenience isn’t the right move for the long term.
If we’re going to leave the past behind, aim for a better future.
We should. The RIO for the auto and aviation sectors are terrible for the government but Liberals need this Ontario votes.
The thing is we’re holding back on embracing innovation to protect local industries. It would be like if we banned the IPhone to protect BlackBerry back in 2007. We can’t keep our heads in the sand forever.
We need to embrace tech that’s so much far ahead. As long as it complies with Canadian standards and security. Maybe if we’re more willing to have these Chinese vehicles built in Canada that would work too
Unfortunately it looks like Carney is considering backing off on the 2025 EV Sales mandate.
Guess we’ll see what happens in the coming days.
I’m all for supporting local jobs and realise the auto sector employs a lot of Canadians. But at the same time, I’m kind of like „fuck them“ to the auto manufacturers. They’re dragging their feet/heads in the sand with not just EV/zero emission vehicles, but also just providing options.
Let’s let BYD bring their automobiles here and see what consumers actually want.
Good idea, and I’m not against the idea.
Two questions though
– range of the vehicle vs charging stations and
– available energy to power increased EVs.
Currently we have enough power for our society, but if everyone had EVs, would we? Until solar is installed on every roof/parking garage/light pole, we don’t have the capacity to power everyone having EVs.
The distances we travel is also a problem. Getting transmission lines to power the cars travelling long isolated distances is going to be very costly.
In cities, I’m all for it. Solar/wind can be installed relatively easily, and an infrastructure exists. Remote areas though, gas/diesel will be easier to access.
I would love to see the alternate universe where the Big Three were left to die decades ago. The level of stagnation that has been fueled by the US and Canada treating those rotting corpses as national champions is incomprehensible.