Warum startet Kanada keinen eigenen Hersteller von Elektroautos?
https://www.thestar.com/business/why-does-canada-not-launch-an-ev-automaker-of-its-own/article_b6e0bc39-0484-46ec-9b47-abeafff9e029.html
Warum startet Kanada keinen eigenen Hersteller von Elektroautos?
https://www.thestar.com/business/why-does-canada-not-launch-an-ev-automaker-of-its-own/article_b6e0bc39-0484-46ec-9b47-abeafff9e029.html
10 Kommentare
There’s nothing preventing some enterprising person from launching a car business, but clearly nobody sees a business case for it. If it was likely to be successful, someone would have done it already.
Also, we do have Edison motors. Seems like these guys are still pretty small but it’s something.
How much money and subsidies do the taxpayers throw at EVs while the market continues to not be here. How many companies in the EV manufacturing chain have already folded citing the market not being there yet.
Unless the product can be easily (non-tariffed) exported to the US and abroad, AND there is enough demand for it, then it won’t be profitable and not worth attempting to do to begin with. The math just doesn’t work. Anyone who proposes this assumes that we live in a vacuum and that everyone in Canada will dutifully buy one like a robot in a simulation. That won’t happen. Costs will also be a huge factor, as it simply costs too much, even with automation, to hire people to build these cars here in Canada. Then you get into the supply chain issues or sourcing the materials and components, and manufacturing those. It won’t work.
It’s not impossible. The cost to create a car using off the shelf components has come way down. But you would need a significant market penetration for it to be an actual car and not a rich person’s toy.
If the goal is extremely affordable to Canadians for domestic market only? It can absolutely be done but its not possible if your goal is export market scalable nor will it stop half of the market from still collapsing
The issue here is Chinese EVs are a sign of an industrial technological jump ahead that China has which can’t be replicated here and it’s not just labor cost related but in car tech, robotics etc
Why the *beep* would we do that?
Why reinventing the wheel?
FYI, China has decades in advance to North America in terms of technological development related to electric vehicles. Yes, decades!
Considering that EVs are filled with electronics, where would that electronics come from?
It is time to be realistic and pragmatic: China is currently the most advanced nations in terms of EVs development and if we would want to be competitive with the US in this regard, we would need to promote Chinese EVs here, NOT reinvent the wheel and see what ends up in 30 years!
Forget it, Canada is too small for an indigenous EV brand, and geographically it’s not ideal for EVs. Let alone all the bureaucratic red tapes
Personally I’d rather that we return to manufacturing refrigerators and stoves and lawn mowers and other appliances. Probably more of a market for that, at least domestically.
There are many companies in Canada that already convert combustion engine vehicles to Electric for the mining industry. I would guess the issue has more to do with those heavily invested in the oil and the big 3 auto industry working nonstop lobbying government to make it as hard as possible to launch a new ev into the marketplace. We all know that governments cater to the rich and not the people, hence why they call it govern more than serve.
Might be a possibility if it’s paired with legistlation banning regular vehicles being purchased. But honestly they should just remove tariffs on Chinese EV’s. Build a BYD factory here, like has been done elsewhere. Let Canadians buy cheap Chinese electric vehicles and see how that works.