Hopefully tesla is not on a list of EV incentives due to the gaming of Canada’s EV rebates in the recent past. Also, and never forget, a believer of the Nazi way of life is selling you those teslar’s.
Not surprised to see Doug flip-flop on EV incentives. I wonder where we’d be now in Ontario if EV rebates kept pace 5 years ago.
We may have had EV manufacturing established in the Ford Oakville plant by now. There used to be plans for that.
For made an EV pickup. No one bought them.
Lemmy is delusional. For every EV, Canadians buy 100 pickups and large SUVs.
For made an EV pickup. No one bought them.
Have you seen the prices the were asking?
Make them less of a "luxury " vehicle (both in terms of “options” and price) and more people will want to buy.
Why the fuck were we rebating $110,000 Tesla’s?
This ranks right up with removing taxes on private jets and yachts.
Such incentives should be available only for ‘Made in Canada’ products (and I mean really made in Canada, not just sold by a company with headquarters in Canada but all the production abroad). The EU is in the process of establishing a similar a law afaik.
Are there any vehicles ‘really made’ in any single country? For instance, I don’t think there are any cars 100% made in the US. Assembled in the US of course, but my understanding is the parts come from around the world - the Corvette is the first example that comes up in a search - assembled at the Bowling Green, Kentucky plant, using a combination of domestic and international parts. Roughly 40-41% of parts for the 2025 C8 originate from the U.S. and Canada, while approximately 31-32% are sourced from Mexico…
I agree. But such incentives should be given only if a substantial part of the overall product benefits the Canadian economy. If parts from abroad are used, then those areas or countries that share Canadian democratic values may be given a similar status imo. Canada shouldn’t give money to autocratic states where people often work under slave-like conditions.
Sad to see the EV targets get softened like that, but with Chinese vehicles entering the market and the price disparity between combustion vehicles and EVs narrowing this is exactly the kind of thing that will help nudge the market along to organically grow EV adoption to similar percentages as previously mandated.
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Nice, I need to check for a new car too.
Why. These Chinese EVs are already cheaper, why do we need to be subsidizing EVs not made in Canada. I guess Carney wants to kill the Ontario auto industry.
Tariffs stop them being cheaper and this is to replace the mandate of car companies switching to electric.
Bro, carney, opening the bank account for people to buy china’s EV’s, trade with china better pay out old man.
