About time, but I’m not popping the champagne yet. Incentives can actually move the needle on EV adoption, especially for people on the fence, but only if they’re designed to help ordinary drivers, not subsidize rich people buying luxury Teslas.
If the feds are serious, make the rebates mean-tested and apply to used EVs too, tie some money to real charging infrastructure in apartments and rural areas, and fund grid upgrades where needed. Also demand concrete commitments on battery recycling and on getting good-paying assembly and battery jobs into Canada, not just headline promises to automakers.
I’ll believe it when the fine print lands. If this is just a PR grab ahead of whatever political calendar is coming, I’ll call it out. Do it right or don’t do it at all.
Means-testing would make it unnecessarily expensive. Just make it so it only applies to cheap EVs. Applying reabtes to used would be really nice but unfortunately is impossible because a car could be sold used an infinite number of times.
EV incentives are always going to benefit people who can afford cars, which is absolutely imbalanced, but the goal is to just get more EVs on the road and not wealth distribution.
Carney government would never do this, but we should just fund public transit so that it’s free, and fund EV bus fleets.
Rebates on used cars can come with the stipulation that the current owner has owned it for a certain number of years, and the amount can also be smaller.
About time, but I’m not popping the champagne yet. Incentives can actually move the needle on EV adoption, especially for people on the fence, but only if they’re designed to help ordinary drivers, not subsidize rich people buying luxury Teslas.
If the feds are serious, make the rebates mean-tested and apply to used EVs too, tie some money to real charging infrastructure in apartments and rural areas, and fund grid upgrades where needed. Also demand concrete commitments on battery recycling and on getting good-paying assembly and battery jobs into Canada, not just headline promises to automakers.
I’ll believe it when the fine print lands. If this is just a PR grab ahead of whatever political calendar is coming, I’ll call it out. Do it right or don’t do it at all.
Means-testing would make it unnecessarily expensive. Just make it so it only applies to cheap EVs. Applying reabtes to used would be really nice but unfortunately is impossible because a car could be sold used an infinite number of times.
EV incentives are always going to benefit people who can afford cars, which is absolutely imbalanced, but the goal is to just get more EVs on the road and not wealth distribution.
Carney government would never do this, but we should just fund public transit so that it’s free, and fund EV bus fleets.
Yeah about funding transit, dunno if you saw this one from yesterday https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-big-city-mayors-carney-5-billion-cut-to-transit-funding/
ffs
Rebates on used cars can come with the stipulation that the current owner has owned it for a certain number of years, and the amount can also be smaller.