eksb ( @eksb@programming.dev ) English25•7 months agoActual good plan:
- Announce that the 401 will be permanently closed on Dec 31, 2024.
- Do NOT add more lanes to the 403 or the 407.
- Start construction of both a high speed, limited stop, rail line and a moderate speed, frequent stop rail line, where the 401 used to be on Jan 2, 2025.
𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 ( @toaster@slrpnk.net ) English1•7 months agoSpeaking my love language.
MrMakabar ( @MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ) 16•7 months agoGood news. BEVs save the car industry, which is destroying cities, but it really hurts the oil industry, which destroys the world.
Alex ( @ultra@feddit.ro ) 3•7 months agoWhat are BEVs?
MrMakabar ( @MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ) 10•7 months agoBattery Electric Vehicles
Alex ( @ultra@feddit.ro ) 2•7 months agoOh, instead of ones that convert petrol to electricity?
MrMakabar ( @MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ) 8•7 months agoInstead of plugin hybrids, which have both a combustion engine for petrol and a relatively large rechargeable battery. Also it does not include hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Alex ( @ultra@feddit.ro ) 4•7 months agoI thought just “EV” didn’t include hybrids
GenEcon ( @GenEcon@lemm.ee ) 4•7 months agoBEV: battery-electric
FCEV: fuel-cell electric (hydrogen)
(P)HEV: (plug in) hybrid-electric
All of them are part of the EVs.
Alex ( @ultra@feddit.ro ) 3•7 months agoTIL
Auzy ( @Auzy@beehaw.org ) 12•7 months agoIt’s crazy to think how far BEV range will be by then too.
Unfortunately, I’m sure far right wing nutjobs will still convince themselves somehow that masculinity is dependent on owning a diesel/petrol engine
floofloof ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca ) English15•7 months agoThere’s also a good chance far right wing nutjobs will run Canada after the next election and make pollution mandatory to pwn the libs.
𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 ( @toaster@slrpnk.net ) English3•7 months agoGunna go hard badgering everyone I know to vote this time around.
AEMarling ( @AEMarling@slrpnk.net ) 11•7 months agoCars are a dead-end technology that leave too many people dead by collisions and even more from unsustainable infrastructure.
𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 ( @toaster@slrpnk.net ) English4•7 months agoBased.
tunetardis ( @tunetardis@lemmy.ca ) 8•7 months agoZero-emission vehicles - which include battery electric, plug-in and hydrogen models - must represent 20 per cent of all new car sales in 2026, 60 per cent in 2030 and 100 per cent in 2035, the source said on condition of anonymity.
So “plug-in” would be PHEVs I’m assuming?
Yes. Same as California rules.
Alex ( @ultra@feddit.ro ) 7•7 months agoReally based move from Canada.
Ooops ( @Ooops@kbin.social ) 6•7 months agoIt’s not. It’s just acknowledging the reality that with a lot of countries (including the EU) and several states of their southern neighbour putting bans on combustion-engines in place for 2030-2036 that industry will simply be dead.
Not banning them by 2035 would have the exact same result as you simply don’t buy anything but an EV when that’s the only option left by then.
CrabAndBroom ( @CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) 3•7 months agoLiberals announce new thing for Conservatives to roll back in 2026
cmysmiaczxotoy ( @cmysmiaczxotoy@lemm.ee ) 1•7 months agoThe cold weather there is terrible for Lithium batteries. This plan will never hold with current EV tech
The cold weather there was terrible for gas engines too. It’s definitely viable with what we have.